In the coming week, Iran prepares for snap elections after the death of President Raeisi.

Israel responds to ICC warrant requests for its Prime Minister and Defense Minister,

and South Africa holds general elections.

It's May 23rd, 2024, on time for the world next week. I'm Bob McMahon.

And I'm Carl Ann Robbins.

Bob, let's start with Iran.

The death and a helicopter crash of Iran's president has raised major questions about its future power structure. Not only was

Raeisi president, he was believed to be on the shortlist to succeed Iran's supreme leader, who was 85 and

reportedly in ill health. What should we expect from Iran's presidential elections, which are now

scheduled for June 28th? And Iranians are so disaffected from their leaders that much to the

government's embarrassment, only 41% of voters turned out for legislative elections in March,

if you believe those numbers. Yes, there's a lot of interesting maneuvering going on to say the

least, Carla, in terms of both internally, but also messaging to the world. There's desire to show that

despite its heavy sanctioning, for example, Iran is getting all sorts of state leaders from across

the board coming. That's kind of a mixed picture right now. And by the way, with the Supreme

Leader's health, it's one of those cases where, you know,

we've been talking about the ill health of commenting for I think maybe 15 years now.

So it's not to say that at 85, he's going to be around a lot longer, but I'm not sure

anything's imminent as of yet.

At the same time, Iranians themselves have been talking about it in their power chambers,

about succession process. And you're absolutely right, Reisi was considered a suitable stand-in.

Kamene himself served as president before he rose to Supreme Leader.

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