Appointing a new leader is the least of Iran’s troubles

Regime lines up Khamenei’s son for the top job in a country reeling from the US-Israeli onslaught and virtually at war with its Gulf neighbours

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The Assembly of Experts of Iran has settled on the son of the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as its next supreme leader, his supporters claim, with the announcement delayed by a dispute over voting procedures.

If it is decided that the assembly does not have to meet in person to vote, its secretariat could simply declare that a consensus had been reached.