Hardliner elected Iran assembly head
Iran’s Assembly of Experts chose ultraconservative Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati on Tuesday to head the key body which oversees the work of the country’s supreme leader and will elect his successor, state television reported. The 89-year-old cleric is one of the few hardliners who secured reelection in a February vote that saw a landslide for reformists and moderates in the capital and big gains elsewhere. Jannati was voted chairman of the 88-member Assembly with 51 votes. Former president Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who had chaired the ...
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