Israel and US ‘flatten’ Assembly of Experts building where Iran chooses its next supreme leader

According to local media reports, Israeli and US attacks destroyed the building where Iran will elect its next new religious leader.

According to Tasnim news agency, ‘American-Zionist criminals attacked the Assembly of Experts building in Qom, south of Tehran.

In the images published by Iranian media organizations, it can be seen that the complex was severely damaged in the attacks.

Iran’s religious leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in US and Israeli attacks on Saturday.

This came as Donald Trump told Iran’s surviving leaders it was ‘too late’ to talk.

Writing on the Truth Social account, the President said: ‘Their air defence, Air Force, Navy and Leadership are gone. They want to talk. ‘It’s too late,’ I said.

As the conflict entered its fourth day, Trump warned that the ‘hardest hits’ were yet to come and vowed retaliation after the US embassy in Saudi Arabia was attacked by drones.

Donald Trump claimed that the initial attacks on Iran eliminated all major US preferences for taking over the regime.

The US President said the White House had shortlisted several preferred successors of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei before his death.

But he claimed the military operation was ‘so successful’ that it eliminated not only Washington’s main rivals but also its ‘second or third’ options.

Iran is thought to be considering top security chief Ali Larijani as leader, along with Khamenei’s second eldest son, Mojtaba Khamenei, and parliament speaker Mohammad Baqir Qalibaf.

Speaking to ABC News, Trump said, “The attack was so successful that it knocked out most of the candidates.”

He said 48 Iranian leaders were killed and most of the country’s leaders disappeared in the weekend bombings.

The president did not announce who had been named as his successor, but those killed included Ali Shamkhani, a top regime adviser, Revolutionary Guard Commander General Mohammed Pakpour and hardline former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

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