Iran's Provisional Leadership Council has been given new constitutional powers by the State Expediency Council to assign or remove military commanders and to declare war or peace, local media reported quoting the Expediency Council's spokesman.
The decision was adopted based on Article 111 of the Constitution to avoid an executive and command vacuum, Expediency Council’s Spokesman Mohsen Dehnavi said on X quoted by Entekhab news website.
Meanwhile, member of Golestan Province in the Leadership Experts Council, Ayatollah Mohsen Taheri said that “In-absentia voting for a new leader is underway and the result will be announced soon.”
“The preferred option of the overwhelming majority of representatives and the prudent nation of Iran is crystal clear, but to comply with the law, we have asked people not to speculate,” reported Aftabnews website citing him.
According to official sources, former Leader Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khameni, who was killed on the first day of U.S.-Israel attacks last Saturday (28 February), will be laid to rest in the holy city or Mashhad after a farewell ceremony in the capital Tehran which has been delayed for security reasons.
Fars News Agency which is close to the elite Revolutionary Guards, reported that, “Headquarter officials are holding a grand farewell ceremony for the martyred leader of Iran and are planning to hold it in the capital.”
On Thursday which marked the sixth day of war, the Martyrs Foundation announced the total number of civilian casualties at 1,230 people.
It also said that 200 of those killed by U.S. attacks on a school were female students during the first day of war last Saturday in Minab, south of Iran.
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