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Former president’s exclusion from group likely to choose next supreme leader angers reformistsThe Iranian regime has taken its crackdown on any internal opposition into a new phase by disqualifying the reformist former president Hassan Rouhani from seeking re-election to the assembly of experts, the body that chooses the country’s supreme leader.Reformists reacted angrily on Thursday to the regime-controlled guardian council’s announcement. The 88 assembly...