I doubt if things are really going to change this much even with the change in the assembly.
Khamenei laments 'loss' of hard-line Assembly of Experts members
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei met for the last time with the outgoing members of the Assembly of Experts before the winners of the Feb. 26 elections take office.
Summary⎙ Print At the last meeting of Iran’s outgoing Assembly of Experts, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei expressed regret for the departure of two hard-liners and defended the Guardian Council's disqualification of several Reformist candidates.
Author Arash KaramiPosted March 10, 2016
Missing from the next meeting will be two of the country’s most hard-line clerics, chairman Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi and Ayatollah Mohammad Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi. In his address to the assembly, Khamenei called their departure "a loss" and stressed that their losing the election does not “harm their reputation in any way.”
Perhaps no one in the next assembly will be more relieved by their absence than Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. Rafsanjani lost the last election for the chairmanship to Yazdi. Meanwhile, Mesbah-Yazdi and the hard-line political group he leads, the Endurance Front, are some of Rafsanjani’s harshest critics. That Khamenei would mention these two individuals by name and lament their absence suggests that should Rafsanjani seek to take back the chairmanship in the assembly, he may find it no easy task.
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Khamenei laments 'loss' of hard-line Assembly of Experts members
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei met for the last time with the outgoing members of the Assembly of Experts before the winners of the Feb. 26 elections take office.
Summary⎙ Print At the last meeting of Iran’s outgoing Assembly of Experts, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei expressed regret for the departure of two hard-liners and defended the Guardian Council's disqualification of several Reformist candidates.
Author Arash KaramiPosted March 10, 2016
Missing from the next meeting will be two of the country’s most hard-line clerics, chairman Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi and Ayatollah Mohammad Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi. In his address to the assembly, Khamenei called their departure "a loss" and stressed that their losing the election does not “harm their reputation in any way.”
Perhaps no one in the next assembly will be more relieved by their absence than Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. Rafsanjani lost the last election for the chairmanship to Yazdi. Meanwhile, Mesbah-Yazdi and the hard-line political group he leads, the Endurance Front, are some of Rafsanjani’s harshest critics. That Khamenei would mention these two individuals by name and lament their absence suggests that should Rafsanjani seek to take back the chairmanship in the assembly, he may find it no easy task.
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Khamenei laments 'loss' of hard-line Assembly of Experts members - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East
