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Iran names Ayatollah Arafi as interim Supreme Leader after Khamenei's death

Ayatollah Alireza Arafi, a prominent Shia cleric and Islamic jurist born in 1959 in Meybod, central Iran, currently heads the country's Centre for the Management of Islamic Seminaries and has been Director of the revered Qom Seminary since 2016


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