- Iran’s new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei has reportedly released a new message, read out by state media, advising current government officials to remain in post and continue working based on existing directives.
- “I hereby announce that, for the present, none of them requires the renewal of their appointment. It is crucial that they continue their work in accordance with the directives received during the lifetime of Ayatollah Khamenei,” said the message, according to the BBC.
- The new supreme leader has not been seen in public since his appointment after the death of his father, and President Donald Trump has alleged that all Iran’s leaders are dead, which Iranian officials, including the country’s foreign minister, have denied.
- ”God’s will was that Mojtaba had to go out to the yard to do something and then return,” Mazaher Hosseini, head of protocol for Ali Khamenei’s office, claimed in an address to senior clerics and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commanders.
- “He was outside and was heading upstairs when they struck the building with a missile. His wife, Ms [Zahra] Haddad, was martyred instantly.”
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