There is the assembly of experts, a body of senior clerics chaired by Mr Rafsanjani.
Rafsanjani, a powerful cleric who heads the Expediency Council and Assembly of Experts, remains an influential figure in Iran.
Rafsanjani, a powerful cleric who heads the Expediency Council and Assembly of Experts, was president of Iran from 1989 to 1997.
In the Islamic Republic of Iran, the supreme leader is chosen by a group called the Assembly of Experts, clerics who are elected every eight years.
But this argument overlooks the fact that all the candidates for the Qom-based Assembly of Experts must be clerics, and moreover clerics approved by the Council of Guardians.
Former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, chairman of Iran's Assembly of Experts and a supporter of opposition leader Mir Hussein Moussavi, was quoted Saturday by the semi-official Iranian Labor News Agency.
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The witnesses setting forth this improbable sequence of cause and effect were outclassed in every respect by the impressive assembly of true experts in their respective fields who testified on behalf of respondent.
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