Ultraconservative to head Iran's top clerical body
Iran's Assembly of Experts, the clerics who appoint and can dismiss the country's supreme leader, picked an ultraconservative as their new chairman in a surprise appointment on Tuesday./ Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi, 83, was a deputy speaker of parliament after the 1979 Islamic revolution and headed the judiciary for a decade until 1999. He gained 47 of the 73 votes cast at a closed-door meeting in Tehran, according to the website of state television, citing officials. Yazdi was among five contenders whose names had been linked to the post by ...
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