Iranian officials have reportedly chosen Ali Khamenei's son, Mojtaba, as the Islamic Republic's next supreme leader.
The elder Khamenei was killed by an Israeli strike on Saturday as part of Operation Roaring Lion.
According to Iran International, the Assembly of Experts, a group of 88 elected clerics responsible for the appointment, named Mojtaba as his father's successor in the early hours of this morning.
The process, the outlet reports, was expedited under pressure from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which apparently pushed for a rapid selection amid concerns of popular uprisings against the regime.
And it seems that anyone hoping for a moderate as the next supreme leader may be disappointed, as Mojtaba is considered by analysts to be as extreme as his father, if not more so.
Kasra Aarabi, director of IRGC research at United Against Nuclear Iran, has described him as "like his father - only on steroids".
Having joined the IRGC at 17, he fought in the "notoriously ideological" 27th Mohammad Rasulullah Division.
After his military service, he went on to study as a cleric at the "deeply conservative" Qom Shia Seminary, before joining the Office of the Supreme Leader.
And, according to a leaked IRGC report seen by Aarabi, Mojtaba played a "crucial role in commanding the violent suppression of Iranian civilians in the recent anti-regime protests".
As the selection process unfolded, the US and Israel continued to launch strikes on targets across Iran.
These included the Natanz nuclear facility, which the regime has used to enrich a sizeable stock of uranium.
Indeed, US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff claimed in an interview with Fox News that, during diplomatic talks in Switzerland prior to the war, Iranian officials openly boasted of having enough radioactive material to construct 11 nuclear weapons.
Iranian state media reported that the site had been struck, but said that no radiation leaks had been detected.
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