Photo by the media. The acting supreme leader of Iran is Ayatollah Alireza Arafi
Arafi was born in 1959 in the city of Meybod. Since 2022, he has been a member of Iran's Assembly of Experts.
As the head of Iranian seminaries, he has actively worked on reforming the country's educational system, promoting ideas of "Islamization" and replacing traditional humanities textbooks with those that align with the ideology of Ruhollah Khomeini.
Alireza Arafi also held the position of chairman of the Al-Mustafa International University, which had the opportunity to recruit fighters for the elite unit of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
In March 2022, he was elected to the Assembly of Experts from Tehran and became a member of the Guardian Council.
On the morning of February 28, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed, and this information was officially confirmed by the country's authorities.
Previously, the IRGC declared revenge against the United States and Israel for the assassination of the supreme leader, announcing the beginning of "the most powerful offensive operation in the history of the Armed Forces of Iran."
The situation escalated on February 28, when Israel and the United States began numerous air and missile attacks on Iranian cities and military facilities. In response, Tehran struck Israel and American bases in several countries in the Middle East. In the first hours of the conflict, several high-ranking Iranian officials and military personnel were killed. American President Donald Trump announced the beginning of the military operation "Lion's Roar" shortly after the first strikes.
