Israel bombs council during vote count for Iran's next supreme leader - Axios
Israel’s air force struck the building housing Iran’s Council of Experts in the holy city of Qom on Tuesday in an attempt to disrupt the process of appointing a new supreme leader, Axios reported, citing an Israeli defense official.
The official said the strike occurred while votes were being counted and that the aim was to prevent the clerical body from selecting a successor to former Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who was assassinated on Saturday in the first wave of Israeli strikes.
"We wanted to prevent them from picking a new supreme leader," Axios quoted the unnamed Israeli official as saying.
It was not immediately clear how many of the council’s 88 members were in the building at the time or the extent of the damage, the report said.
