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The Times of India
The Times of India
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TOI World Desk

Israel strikes building where Iranian clerics were choosing Khamenei's successor

Israel carried out an airstrike on a building in the Iranian city of Qom that was reported to be hosting senior clerics of the Assembly of Experts as they convened to begin the process of selecting a successor to the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

The Assembly, an 88-member clerical body constitutionally tasked with choosing Iran’s supreme leader, had not met for succession since it appointed Khamenei in 1989.

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