New York TimesWorld|Powerful Council in Iran Selects Hard-Liner as ChairmanNew York TimesTEHRAN — An Iranian council that would have the authority to select a new supreme leader elected an 89-year-old hard-liner as its chairman on Tuesday, Iranian state news media reported. The council, the Assembly of Experts, holds an increasingly ...Hard-line cleric voted leader of Iran's Assembly of ExpertsWashington PostAnti-US Hardliner Ahmed Jannati Elected to Lead Iranian Religious BodyNBCNews.comIran hardliner Jannati elected head of Assembly of ExpertsBBC NewsReuters -Financial Times -Telegraph.co.uk -TheTower.orgall 61 news articles »