Clerical body in charge of choosing Iran’s next leader hit in Qom and Tehran
US and Israeli forces struck the office of Iran’s Assembly of Experts in the city of Qom on Tuesday, Iran’s Tasnim news agency reported, in the latest attack on senior state institutions.
Tasnim, which is affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, also cnfirmed that the Assembly’s compound in Tehran – located at the former parliament building – had also been struck overnight.
Separately, a Telegram channel known as Zed TV reported that an airstrike had targeted a formal session of the Assembly of Experts convened to select the Islamic Republic’s next supreme leader.
The channel claimed that many members of the body had been killed or wounded.
The Assembly of Experts is the clerical body responsible under Iran’s constitution for appointing and overseeing the supreme leader.
The reported attacks come amid heightened tensions following the killing of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and as Iranian officials have said the process of selecting his successor is under way.
