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Prominent Iranian cleric dies at 85
-- The Associated Press (Published July 30‚ 2007) TEHRAN, Iran (AP) Ayatollah Ali Meshkini, a founding member of Iran's Islamic regime and leader of an important government assembly, died Monday. He was 85. Meshkini died in a Tehran hospital where he had been receiving treatment since early July, his doctor, Jaffar Aslani, told the official Islamic Republic News Agency. State television said he died of a lung infection. The ayatollah, or top-ranking Shiite Muslim cleric, was the head of the Assembly of Experts. The 86-member government body can in theory reprimand or even dismiss Iran's supreme leader, a position currently held by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. In a condolence message reported by IRNA, Khamenei described Meshkini as "a model for his students and followers," and said his demise was "a great loss." It was not immediately clear who would succeed Meshkini in his assembly position. Meshkini was a close associate of the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, whom he supported during the 1979 Islamic Revolution that brought the religious regime to power. |
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