Who will be Irans next Supreme Leader? The head of the Assembly of Experts, the body that elects the Supreme Leader of Iran, has died after almost five months in a coma. Mohammad Reza Mahdavi Kani was considered to be a unifying figure in Iranian politics and his death opens up a period of uncertainty at a crucial time. It comes just a month after the countrys 75-year-old Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had prostate surgery, with official photographs showing him pale and fragile in his hospital bed. The events raise the question of who will eventually take over as leader, and how that choice will be made. How powerful is the Supreme Leader? bbc/news/world-middle-east-29685856
Posted on: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 09:30:36 +0000
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