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John Kerry hopeful on reaching nuke agreement with Iran

US Secretary of State John Kerry expressed his hopefulness that a temporary agreement with Iran will be reached in the next few days, if Tehran manages to prove that their nuclear program is meant to be used for peaceful purposes.

 

Speaking on the day before new talks with Iran begin talking place in Switzerland, Kerry appeared hopeful on said agreement.

Ultraconservative to head Iran's top clerical body

Iran's Assembly of Experts, the clerics who appoint and can dismiss the country's supreme leader, picked an ultraconservative as their new chairman in a surprise appointment on March 10.
      
Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi, 83, was a deputy speaker of parliament after the 1979 Islamic revolution and headed the judiciary for a decade until 1999.
      

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