Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, would have already appointed a bunker where he is refugee, three possible successors if he dies in an Israeli or American attack, the newspaper reported on Saturday on Saturday said on Saturday The New York Times.
The American newspaper, citing three Iranian authorities familiar with the situation, states that 86 -year -old Khamenei has instructed the assembly of experts in his country – the clerical body responsible for naming the supreme leader – quickly choosing his successor among the three high -patent clerics he indicated.
Succession within the Islamic Republic of Iran is a delicate and thorny process, but Ayatollah wants to guarantee a quick and ordered transition to preserve its legacy in the midst of war with Israel, the newspaper adds.
The Supreme Leader is the Chief Commander of the Armed Forces and heads the Executive, Legislative and Judiciary Powers, as well as being the highest religious authority of Xiism, the majority branch of Islam in Iran.
The direct conflict between Israel and Iran – the most serious between the two countries so far – began last week after the Israeli bombing of nuclear and military facilities in Iran. Since then, the two countries have exchanged a series of air strikes.
In turn, US President Donald Trump said that in the next two weeks he will decide whether his country will join Israeli attacks, with the aim of preventing the Islamic Republic from obtaining and producing nuclear weapons.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that murdering Khamenei would “end the conflict,” while Trump said he knew the surround-leader’s whereabouts, although he discarded him “for now.”
