Iranian clerics pick hard-liner as new head of clerical body
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's most influential clerical body charged with choosing or dismissing the nation's supreme leader has elected a hard-line ayatollah as its new chairman, the official IRNA news agency reported on Tuesday. IRNA said Mohammad Yazdi, the deputy chairman of the 86-member Assembly of Experts, got 47 votes in his favor from among 73 clerics who attended the session. The only other contender was Iran's former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani who got 24 votes. Yazdi, 83, will chair the Assembly for one year, until next ...
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