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Hardline Iranian cleric Raisi gets second powerful job in a week: IRNA
[AlAhram] Hardline Iranian holy man Ebrahim Raisi was elected on Tuesday as deputy chief of the Assembly of Experts, an influential holy manal body which chooses the Supreme Leader, the Islamic Theocratic RepublicNews Agency (IRNA) reported. He got the job less than a week after he was appointed head of the judiciary - making the protege of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei a key player in Iran's politics. Posted by: trailing wife 2019-03-13 |
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