BREAKING NEWS 🚨 IRAN JUST ACTIVATED ARTICLE 111 OF ITS CONSTITUTION For the first time in 36 years, Iran has a new face at the top. Ayatollah Alireza Arafi. 67 years old. And most people have never heard his name. Here’s what you need to know about the man now helping run Iran: Iran has triggered Article 111 following the absence of Ali Khamenei, forming a three-person leadership council to temporarily assume the Supreme Leader’s powers. That council includes: • Arafi • Masoud Pezeshkian (President) • Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje’i (Chief Justice) Together, they divide Khamenei’s constitutional authority until the Assembly of Experts selects a permanent Supreme Leader. But make no mistake — Arafi is the one everyone is watching. This is a man who has been accumulating influence quietly for decades. Born in 1959 in Meybod, his father reportedly had close ties to Ruhollah Khomeini, the architect of the Islamic Republic. Arafi was sent to Qom for religious training at just 11 years old — a direct pipeline into Iran’s clerical elite.