Hardline conservative cleric to head Iran's Assembly of Experts
Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi, a conservative hardliner, has been elected chairman of Iran's Assembly of Experts, which elects and monitors the country's supreme leader. and his candidacy was put forth in recent weeks, reluctantly. Yazdi, 83, won 47 of 73 votes. "Psychologically, I am not at all prepared to become the chairman of the Assembly of Experts," he said. "I work enough at the Expediency Council, and why would it be necessary to work more than this?" , a moderate politician, was also running for the position. Yazdi will serve as the ...
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