Re: Rafsanjani to lead key Iran body
On Sep 14, 2007, at 8:33 PM, uvj@vsnl.com wrote:
BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/
Last Updated: Tuesday, 4 September 2007
Rafsanjani to lead key Iran body http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6977451.stm
[Rafsanjani is considered a rival to President Ahmadinejad]
Former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has been elected
speaker of a powerful clerical body responsible for supervising Iran’s Supreme Leader.The Assembly of Experts has the power to dismiss the Islamic
state’s highest authority, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6977451.stm
This was the news hook for my interview with Ervand Abrahamian; I’ll
post the audio to the web sometime soon….