Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, one of the most powerful clerics in Iran, has warned of a plot to take over the Assembly of Experts, a body that chooses and monitors Iran’s supreme leader.
While Jannati’s March 30 speech in Mashhad was vague and did not accuse any specific group of being behind such a plot, his comments made headlines across conservative and hard-line websites in Iran and have raised questions and inspired speculation on social media about succession after the rule of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ends.