Iran’s Revolutionary Guards pledged allegiance to the country’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, after he was appointed his father’s successor by the Assembly of Experts, AFP reports.

“The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps … is ready for complete obedience and self-sacrifice in carrying out the divine commands of the Guardian Jurist of the time, His Eminence Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei,” the Guards said in a statement.