Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has made the remarkable decision to name his potential successors in the event that he is assassinated.
Khamenei, who is hiding out in a bunker, picked an array of leaders to take over both his military and political duties if he is killed in Israeli airstrikes, the New York Times reports.
Tensions in the Mideast region have fired up in recent days - with both Iran and Israel launches barrages of strikes on one another as Trump toys with the decision for US military intervention.
Israel launched the largest military assault on Iran since the war in Iraq last week, intensifying the already fragile relationship between the two regions.
Officials told the New York Times that Khamenei is instructing the nation's Assembly of Experts, the body of government overseeing the supreme leader, to choose his successor from the three names he provided.
Khamenei's son Mojtaba, was rumored to succeed the role, however, officials told the Times that he was not included in the list given to the assembly.
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