In a decree issued on Monday, Chairman of the Assembly of Experts Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi appointed his first deputy Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi as head of the secretariat of the clerical body, IRNA reported. In separate decrees on the same day, Ayatollah Shahroudi appointed Ayatollah Seyyed Hashem Hosseini Bushehri and Hojatoleslam Ebrahim Raeisi respectively as his deputies for cultural and communications affairs and financial and administrative affairs.
