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Institution

Assembly of Experts

An elected Iranian body constitutionally empowered to appoint and supervise the Supreme Leader. It has a role in reviewing defense and nuclear doctrine.

Iran's Assembly of Experts is an elected body of clerics established after the 1979 Iranian Revolution. It is constitutionally tasked with selecting, dismissing, and supervising the Supreme Leader. In recent years its role has emerged in strategic debates, including reviewing nuclear doctrine.

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