Larijani to succeed Shahroudi as Judiciary chief http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=103278&secdonid=351020101
as Judiciary chief
After ten years in the job, Iran's Judiciary Chief
Ayatollah Mahmoud Shahroudi will be officially replaced
by Mohammad Sadeq Larijani in four days' time.
Senior officials, including parliamentarians, will attend a
ceremony on August 15 at the Judiciary's main
reception hall to mark Shahroudi's departure and the
introduction of his successor Larijani, Mehr news
agency reported.
This is while earlier reports, citing several lawmakers,
had said the handing-over ceremony would be held on
the August 16.
Hujjatolislam Mohammad Sadeq Larijani, 48, is currently
a politician cleric and a member of the Guardian Coi.ncil
- a 12-member supervisory body tasked with
overseeing parliamentary legislations and supervision of elections.
He is also one of the five brothers of Iran's current Speaker of the Majlis (Iran's parliament) Ali Larijani. Another
Laruani brother - Mohammad Javad - heads the Judiciary's human rights department.
Mohammad Sadeq Larijani also has a two-time membership of Assembly of Experts of the Leadership, an
elected body that picks the leader of the Islamic Revolution, oversees his activities and has the power to remove
him.
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Max
Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:22:25 GMT
If he restores some independence to the Judiciary and restores freedom of press and speech and
assembly, things will get better. He also needs to prosecute the rape crimes and Kahrizak crimes.
LARIJANI
Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:27:51 GMT
PASSED THE SECOND ROUND! QLALI FlED FOR THE NEW POST! WHERE ARE YOU GOING TO
MR LARIJANI?
Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:22:14 GMT
those who raped children of iran.wilI be raped with electric drill.like those iraqi so ldgers who raped
iranian women in ahvaz and khoramshahr.death to pedoplyles
LARINJANI
Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:20:57 GMT
NEW POST IN GOVERNMENT= DENY RAPE CLAIMS
Mulla Nasreddin
Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:58:06 GMT
It is good that in Iran we have lack of expert and discent person that we should only chose among our
sons, brothers, son in laws, father of ou son in law and so forth. I am worried that all these in breeding
among our “political elite” (use the word loosely) have and had detrimental effect on our country. Of
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