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Article: Experts Assembly Support Iran's Supreme Leader

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November 24, 1997
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Iran's Experts Assembly has reaffirmed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as the country's supreme leader, the Iranian official news agency IRNA reported today.

The assembly is of the opinion that Khamenei is the jurisprudent who has all qualifications stipulated in Article 109 of the Constitution dealing with leadership, the assembly's secretariat said in a statement issued on Sunday.

The statement said that the assembly selected Khamenei as the leader from all jurisprudents by taking into account all criteria and principles stipulated in the constitution. It said that "support for Velayat-e Faqih (governance of supreme religious jurisprudent) and leadership of the supreme leader is incumbent upon all ...

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