Alireza Arafi, the ‘young’ jurist and philosopher who points to a continuous line to govern Iran after the fall of Khamenei

Khamenei will take over Alireza Arafiexpert in jurisprudence and Islamic philosophy. At 66 years old, he reaches the highest leadership in Tehran after the fall of his predecessor.

This is a young age to lead the country. Khamenei came to power at the age of 50 and established himself as the supreme leader who lasted the longest in office.

On the other hand, he does obtain the baton before Ruhollah Khomeiniformer Ayatollah considered the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Power triangle

The Shia jurist Alireza Arafi completes the triangle of power in Tehran, along with the country’s president, Masud Pezeshkian, and the head of the Judiciary, Gholamhosein Mohseni-Ejei.

In this way, it would provisionally fill the void that Khamenei has left after being reached, with his daughter, son-in-law and grandsonby the “long-range and highly precise” missiles of Washington and Tel Aviv.

The senior cleric is second vice president of the Assembly of Experts, the deliberative body that elects Iran’s supreme leader, and has been member of the Guardian Councilwhich examines electoral candidates and laws passed by Parliament.

university rector

Continuing along this line, Arafi serves as president of the Islamic Seminaries of Iran. In 2022, He was received in a private audience by Pope Francis.

He was also the imam of the Friday prayer of the city of Qom, since 2015. And, in addition, he was rector from Al-Mustafa International University, from 2008 to 2016.

Iranian media define him as the crossover between religious authority and political influence which defines Iran’s power structure, but supposedly lacks ties with the Armed Forces, according to Efe.

But Khamenei has not been the only one to fall. It should be noted that his relatives, the chief of the General Staff, Abdolrahim Musavi; the commander-in-chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Mohamad Pakpourand the Minister of Defense, Aziz Nasirzadehamong others.

Jamenei’s last hours

It was not a swarm of military planes that reduced the official residence of Iran’s former supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, to rubble. But that does not mean that it was not an operation calculated to the millimeter.

The death of Jamenei It came after a plan drawn up by the United States and Israel devised weeks ago.

The one baptized by Tel Aviv as Operation Lion’s Roar started at 06:00 Iran time, around at 03:30 hours in Spain.

As stated The New York Timesthe device started with the takeoff of fighter planese from its bases.

The attack did not need a multitude of aircraft to completely destroy the residential complex of the former high clergyman.

Just a series of military aircraft “armed with long range ammunition and high precision”.

Two hours and five minutes after the aircraft took off, around 9:40 a.m. in Tehran (7:10 a.m. in Spain), the long-range missiles hit the residential complex.

At the time of the attack, several senior officials of the Iranian regime were in one of the numerous buildings that make up the complex.

Simultaneous attacks

But the former supreme leaderor was it in this specific blockbut in another nearby building.

“This morning’s attack was carried out simultaneously in several places in Tehran, in one of which high-ranking figures from Iran’s political and security echelon had gathered,” an Israeli defense official told the newspaper. The New York Times.

This official assured the New York newspaper that, despite Tehran preparing and armoring itself for the war, Tel Aviv achieved a “tactical surprise” with their bombing of the residential complex.

Hours later, the Iranian news agency IRNA confirmed the deaths of two high-level military leaders that Israel claimed to have killed: Rear Admiral Shamkhani and the commander in chief Pakpour.