Overview
- Iran named a three-person interim leadership body under Article 111, comprising President Masoud Pezeshkian, Chief Justice Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei, and Ayatollah Alireza Arafi, who was confirmed as the council’s jurist member.
- State media confirmed the deaths of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and multiple senior security figures, including Defense Minister Aziz Nasirzadeh, army chief Abdolrahim Mousavi, IRGC commander Mohammad Pakpour, and senior adviser Ali Shamkhani.
- The 88-member Assembly of Experts is responsible for selecting a permanent successor, and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said a choice would come early this week.
- Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said it launched retaliatory strikes on U.S. and Israeli targets across the region, with reports of explosions and air-defense activity in Gulf states that remain difficult to independently verify.
- Authorities declared 40 days of national mourning and ordered temporary closures of government offices, as large public gatherings were reported in Tehran and other cities.