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The Week - Top Stories

TODAY'S IRAN WAR story - Iran names new leader as oil tops $100, deaths mount - What happenedIran announced this morning that Mojtaba Khamenei has been chosen to succeed his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as supreme leader in a decisive vote by the Assembly of Experts. Elevating the younger Khamenei cements hard-line theocratic rule in Iran and sends a strong message of d...

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