Who might replace IranŐs supreme leader?

IranŐs clerical regime is facing the prospect of trying to find a
successor to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei following
his killing in joint U.S.-Israeli strikes

Three-member council
Will exercise leaderŐs duties
until successor is elected

Masoud Pezeshkian
President of Iran

Alireza Arafi
Member of Guardian Council

Gholam-Hossein
Mohseni-Ejei: Chief
Justice of Supreme Court

Supreme Leader

Assembly of experts
88-member panel
Ňmust, as soon as
possibleÓ pick new
supreme leader
under Iranian law

Panel elected
every eight years
and approved by
Guardian Council,
IranŐs constitutional
watchdog

POTENTIAL SUCCESSORS TO ALI KHAMENEI

Alireza Arafi
Member of Guardian Council

Sadiq Larijani
Chairman of Expediency
Discernment Council

Mohammad Mirbagheri
Member of Assembly
of Experts

Hashem Hosseini Bushehri
Member of Assembly
of Experts

Hassan Khomeini: Grandson
of founder of Islamic Republic,
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini

Sources: AP, BBC, CNN
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