have a new spokesman, Mehr News Agency, run by the office
of the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, reported on Saturday. Iran Focus
Abbas-Ali Kadkhodaii, the powerful councils current deputy chief, will be taking over the post from Gholam-Hossein Elham who is expected to receive the key post of Chief of Staff for the Irans hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
The 12-man Guardian Council is made up of six Shiite clerics and six lay legal experts. It has veto power over all legislation and rigorously vets candidates in all national elections.