Posted on 03/04/2015 10:48:28 PM PST by Olog-hai
Wrong again: It was only 73, not 86 at the meeting:
The cleric, who served as Iran’s Judiciary chief between 1989 and 1999, was elected as the new head of the body on Tuesday by winning 47 out of 73 votes. Chairman of Iran’s Expediency Council Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani took the rest of the votes.
The vote follows the passing away of the former chairman, Ayatollah Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani, five months ago.
Members of the assembly are directly elected to office by people for an eight-year term. It holds biannual meetings to appoint a new chairman.
http://theiranproject.com/blog/2015/03/10/iran-assembly-of-experts-appoints-yazdi-as-new-chairman/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad-Taqi_Mesbah-Yazdi is not the same person
“My guess was wrong. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Yazdii was elected!”
Six of one, half a dozen of another
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