DUBAI (Reuters) - Iranian lawmakers elected former Revolutionary Guards air force commander Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf on Thursday as the speaker of the hardliner-dominated parliament for one year, state television reported.
State TV said 230 lawmakers, out of 264, voted for Qalibaf, whose record as a veteran of Iran's eight-year war with Iraq in the 1980s and as a national police chief has endeared him to Iran's top authority, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and boosted his chances of becoming speaker.
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