Ayatollah Kani elected as head of Experts Assembly
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
Tehran, March 8, IRNA -- Ayatollah Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi-Kani was elected Tuesday as the chairman of the Assembly of Experts.
Winning most of the votes of the 86-member assembly, the ayatollah would chair the outstanding body for the next two years.
The 9th meeting of the fourth round of the Assembly of Experts opened here on Tuesday.
The meetings of the Expert Assembly are held every six months and its chairmanship elections take place biennially.
Foreign Minister Ali-Akbar Salehi and Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council Saeed Jalili were the special guests of the meeting.
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