Key Iranian Clerical Body Chooses New Hardline Chairman
Newly elected chairman of the Iran's Assembly of Experts Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi sits in a biannual meeting of the assembly in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, March 10, 2015./ The council of clerics in charge of selecting and supervising Iran's supreme leader chose Tuesday to make a hardline conservative its new chairman. The Assembly of Experts elected 83-year-old Mohammad Yazdi to a term that will last until early next year, when the entire assembly will be up for election along with another vote for chairman. He succeeds Ayatollah Mohammadreza ...
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