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Israel says it hit Iran’s Assembly of Experts as it was meeting to choose Khamenei’s successor
Israel targeted Iran's Assembly of Experts during a vote to disrupt the succession process, striking Qom and Tehran sites amid evacuation warnings, officials said.
- On March 3, 2026, Israel's military struck the Assembly of Experts' Qom office while it was meeting to select a successor, severely damaging the building, security officials said.
- Because the Assembly chooses the next supreme leader, its meeting followed Sunday’s confirmation of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's death and plans for an interim leadership council.
- Escalation on the conflict's fourth day saw Israeli ground troops deployed into Lebanon and explosions in Tehran, while Iran struck the U.S. embassy in Saudi Arabia as Washington withdrew staff, with hundreds killed mostly in Iran.
- Analysts warn the spiralling conflict raises questions about how long and how it will end, while U.S. President Donald Trump said it could last four to five weeks but the US is prepared to go longer.
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A building of the Council of Experts, which elects the new Ayatollah, no longer exists. Whether there were clergymen in it at the time of the attack, who may even have carried out a vote, is unclear. Israel and Iran have different information.
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Source link The selection process to choose a new supreme leader in Iran was brought to a dead halt, literally, on Tuesday as Israel’s military conducted a strike on the meeting of the Islamic Republic’s Supreme Council. WATCH: BREAKING: The Israeli Air Force airstriked the building where council members of the Islamic regime were voting for
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On Monday, the Israeli Army attacked the building in the Iranian city of Qom of the Assembly of Experts, the body of clerics to elect the successor of Ayatollah Ali Jamenei, killed last Saturday in an attack by Israel and the United States.The Assembly of Experts, the highest body of the Shi'ite clergy that elects the head of state of Iran since the triumph of the Islamic Revolution in 1979, is composed of 88 members, who in theory must meet as …
Israel Strikes Iran’s Assembly of Experts as Body Convenes to Pick New Supreme Leader
Israel struck the compound of Iran’s Assembly of Experts in the holy city of Qom on Tuesday, targeting the 88-member body as it was convening to select a successor to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in US-Israeli airstrikes on Saturday.
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