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Source: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/15523
Who Rules Iran?
(New York Review of Books) Christopher de Bellaigue - Iran's Supreme Leader, its president, parliament speaker, and top judge are clerics. So are both the head and half the members of the twelve-man Council of Guardians, that acts as the upper house of parliament. The senior echelons of the intelligence ministry and judiciary contain many graduates from Qom's Haqani seminary.