Iran’s Assembly of Experts confirms new supreme leader's surname

A member of Iran’s Assembly of Experts, responsible for selecting the country’s new Supreme Leader, announced that the surname of the new leader will remain the same as that of the late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, TASS reports, citing IRIB.

A council member told Al Hadath that a new leader of Iran had been chosen and added that the surname Khamenei would remain with the new Supreme Leader.

By Jeyhun Aghazada