Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei has endorsed officials appointed by his late father, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, directing them to remain in their posts.

In an explanatory decree issued on Monday, Ayatollah Khamenei said that all officials and managers appointed by the late Leader of the Islamic Revolution must continue serving in their positions in accordance with the directives and instructions previously given to them.

He added that none of those officials will need an official decree to renew their mandates, at least for the time being.

The endorsement comes a week after Iran’s Assembly of Experts appointed Ayatollah Khamenei as the third Leader of the Islamic Revolution following his father’s assassination in a joint US-Israeli terrorist airstrike targeting his office in Tehran on February 28.

The attack, which also killed several high‑profile military commanders, provoked a massive response from the Iranian armed forces, targeting US military assets in regional countries and locations in the Israeli‑occupied territories.

Ayatollah Khamenei issued his first written message to the Iranian nation last week, saying he would continue his father’s policies of resisting hegemony and imperialism and defending the world’s oppressed.

He also made clear that Iran will persist in fighting the ongoing war of aggression by the United States and Israel until the aggressors are fully punished.

Based on Iran’s Constitution, the Leader directly appoints senior commanders of the main branches of the Iranian military, as well as the heads of the judiciary, the Guardian Council, the Expediency Council, state television, the leaders of Friday prayers in provincial capitals, and several other organizations.

Summary: Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei orders officials appointed by his late father to continue their jobs.

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei has endorsed officials appointed by his late father, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, directing them to remain in their posts.

In an explanatory decree issued on Monday, Ayatollah Khamenei said that all officials and managers appointed by the late Leader of the Islamic Revolution must continue serving in their positions in accordance with the directives and instructions previously given to them.

He added that none of those officials will need an official decree to renew their mandates, at least for the time being.

The endorsement comes a week after Iran’s Assembly of Experts appointed Ayatollah Khamenei as the third Leader of the Islamic Revolution following his father’s assassination in a joint US-Israeli terrorist airstrike targeting his office in Tehran on February 28.

The attack, which also killed several high‑profile military commanders, provoked a massive response from the Iranian armed forces, targeting US military assets in regional countries and locations in the Israeli‑occupied territories.

Ayatollah Khamenei issued his first written message to the Iranian nation last week, saying he would continue his father’s policies of resisting hegemony and imperialism and defending the world’s oppressed.

He also made clear that Iran will persist in fighting the ongoing war of aggression by the United States and Israel until the aggressors are fully punished.

Based on Iran’s Constitution, the Leader directly appoints senior commanders of the main branches of the Iranian military, as well as the heads of the judiciary, the Guardian Council, the Expediency Council, state television, the leaders of Friday prayers in provincial capitals, and several other organizations.

The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has once again urged workers to evacuate US-affiliated industrial facilities in West Asia ahead of Iran’s retaliatory attacks.

On Monday, the Public Relations Office of IRGC issued a renewed warning to the owners of US-affiliated industries in the region and called for the evacuation of their workers.

“We warn the defeated American regime to evacuate all American industries in the region, and we ask the people living around industries where Americans hold shares to leave these areas so that they aren’t harmed,” the statement said.

“In the coming hours, these industries will be targeted and hit,” it added.

The US and Israel started a fresh round of unlawful military aggression on Iran on February 28, some eight months after they carried out unprovoked attacks on the country.

The recent attacks led to the martyrdom of Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei and hundreds of Iranian civilians, including women and children, as well as several senior military commanders.

Iran has carried out extensive retaliatory attacks on US assets in the region and on locations in the Israeli-occupied territories since the first day of the US-Israeli war.

The Islamic Republic has said that it respects the sovereignty and territorial integrity of its neighbors and its reprisal attacks are directed at US assets and bases on their soil.

It has also warned regional countries to not allow their territory to be used for attacks against Iran.

France warned on Monday it could block the disbursement of climate funds to India under a recent trade deal with the EU if New Delhi does not up its game in fighting global warming.

France’s Ecological Transition Minister Monique Barbut told AFP the European Union should take a firmer stance against climate inaction and favour a “more transactional” approach in negotiations with emerging economies.

As an example, she singled out India, which signed a major trade deal with Brussels in January.

Under the accord, the EU is to pay 500 million euros ($574 million) to support India’s green transition, she said.

“I am not in favour of such funding until India submits a Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) in accordance with its commitments and it adopts a slightly different approach towards the European Union in climate negotiations,” she said.

NDCs are country plans to cut planet-warming emissions, which signatories to the 2015 Paris climate agreement have to submit every five years.

More than 60 countries, including major recipients of climate finance — such as India, Egypt and the Philippines — are yet to produce their latest version, having failed to meet a United Nations deadline last year.

India is the world’s third-largest emitter of greenhouse gases, after China and the United States.

More broadly, Barbut said Brussels had to take a tougher stance in climate negotiations, with a “more strategic and also more transactional approach”.

“This clearly means: ‘We only pay if you act’,” she said in an interview, adding she had laid out her concerns in a message to the European Commission.

“Europe should only provide financial support to countries that themselves make credible commitments within the framework of the Paris Agreement.”

EU climate ministers are due to discuss the 27-nation bloc’s climate diplomacy during a meeting in Brussels on Tuesday.