Iran security official says Khamenei transition process to begin on Sunday
Iran’s security chief Ali Larijani said the transition process following the killing of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei will begin on Sunday.
“An interim leadership council will soon be formed. The president, the head of the judiciary and a jurist from the Guardian Council will assume responsibility until the election of the next leader,” said Larijani, the head of Iran’s top security body, the Supreme National Security Council, who was an adviser to Khamenei.
“This council will be established as soon as possible. We are working to form it as early as today,” he said in an interview broadcast by state TV.
We will hit them with a force that has never been seen before, Trump warns Iran
US President Donald Trump warned Iran against escalating its attacks in a post on his social media platform Truth Social, after Tehran issued threats following its acknowledgment of the killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
You can read more about the US president’s remarks and what could happen next in the article below by Marina Stoimenova.
Trump: We will hit them with a force that has never been seen before
Trump warned Iran against escalating attacks, while Iran’s parliamentary speaker vowed “devastating blows” in response to the killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei…
Protests erupt at US embassy in Iraq following Khamenei’s death
Hundreds of Iraqis tried to breach Baghdad’s heavily guarded Green Zone, home to the US Embassy, after the death of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, a security source told AFP.
Footage shared on social media shows demonstrators hurling stones at security personnel, who responded with tear gas. An AFP reporter on the scene saw hundreds of people waving the flags of a pro-Iran armed faction.
Iran’s chief of army staff, defence minister also killed, state TV says
The deaths of Admiral Ali Shamkhani, Secretary of the Supreme Defence Council, and Major General Mohammad Pakpour, Commander-in-Chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), in Saturday’s US and Israeli attack on Tehran have been officially confirmed by state television.
An intelligence and a military source told CBS News late on Saturday that around 40 senior Iranian officials were killed in the strikes.
