Alireza Arafi appointed jurist member of Iran's temporary Leadership Council Council includes President Pezeshkian and Chief Justice Mohseni Ejei Council manages supreme leader duties until successor ...

Arafi, born in 1959 in Meybod, Yazd province, comes from a clerical family and has spent decades within Iran’s theological and bureaucratic institutions. He studied in Qom, Iran’s principal seminary ...

DUBAI, March 1 (Reuters) - Alireza Arafi was appointed on Sunday as the jurist member of Iran's Leadership Council, a body tasked with fulfilling the supreme leader's role until the Assembly of ...

The Islamic Republic’s opaque and fractured governing system following the killing of its supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, selected radical cleric Ayatollah Alireza Arafi to its interim ...

Ayatollah Alireza Arafi was appointed jurist member of Iran's interim Leadership Council on Sunday. This came after the assassination of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei by the US and ...

A triumph in indoor soccer has turned Alireza Ahmadi, 17, and other players from the Hazara minority, long marginalized in Afghanistan, into national heroes. Alireza Ahmadi, 17, playing futsal in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Islamic Republic’s opaque and fractured governing system following the killing of its supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, ...

Iran named Ayatollah Alireza Arafi, a senior cleric and member of the Guardian Council, to a three-member interim leadership council that was formed on Sunday after Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali ...

Iranian authorities have selected Ayatollah Alireza Arafi, a clerical member of the Guardian Council, to serve on Iran’s interim Leadership Council, according to an official statement on Sunday.

Ayatollah Alireza Arafi has been appointed as Iran’s interim Supreme Leader following the reported death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, with a temporary leadership council assuming his duties until a ...

The Islamic Republic of Iran's constitution has a clause for extreme moments — such as when the Supreme Leader dies, or is assassinated as has happened in the case of Ali Khamenei. Born in 1959 in the ...

After the death of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a deadly and joint US-Israeli strike, Iran on Sunday named Ayatollah Alireza Arafi as his interim successor. Arafi is currently a ...