[New York Times] Michael Slackman - Former Iranian president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, defeated in elections two years ago by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, narrowly won election to head the Assembly of Experts, a group of 88 clerics who select the replacement of the supreme leader when he dies.
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