Political figures in Iran criticized the idea of handing over the supreme leader's title based on heredity, creating a clerical version of the shah. With Iran’s theocracy under assault by the U.S. and Israel for more than a week, the country’s Assembly of Experts chose as the next supreme leader a secretive, 56-year-old cleric who maintains close ties to the country’s paramilitary Revolutionary G... [6466 chars]
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