Iran’s Assembly of Experts could meet to elect new supreme leader within 24 hours

Senior clerics are pushing for Iran’s new supreme leader to be selected within 24 hours (Picture: AFP)

Iran’s temporary leadership council is facing pressure to swiftly appoint a new supreme leader, according to reports.

The nation’s Assembly of Experts could meet within a day to choose the next leader, after former Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, 86 was killed by US-Israeli strikes on Tehran.

One assembly member, Ayatollah Hossein Mozafari, suggested that the clerics would shortly convene.