Meet the New Mullah
The radical who could help pick Iran’s next supreme leader./ One of the advertised benefits of the nuclear deal with Iran is that it will gradually soften the regime by empowering more moderate politicians. To judge by last week’s leadership election in Iran’s Assembly of Experts, moderation isn’t what the mullahs have in mind. The 88-member Assembly, which will select the Islamic Republic’s next supreme leader, voted Tuesday to make 89-year old Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati its speaker. Mr. Jannati is a hard-liner even by the regime’s exacting ...
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