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Source: http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/hard-line-cleric-speaker-assembly-expert-39326912
Hard-Line Cleric Voted Leader of Iran's Assembly of Experts
(AP-ABC News) Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell - Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, 89, a hardline Iranian cleric who called for the execution of opposition activists and asked Iraqis to be suicide bombers against U.S. forces in 2003, was chosen on Tuesday to lead the Assembly of Experts, a clerical body that picks the country's next supreme leader. In 2009, Jannati remarked during Friday prayers that he wanted someone to shoot then-Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni.