Former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (R) speaks to Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami after making a speech to members of the Assembly of Experts during their annual meeting in Tehran September 4, 2007. Rafsanjani was elected as the new speaker of the Assembly of Experts, an 86-seat body of clerics that has powers to appoint, supervise and even dismiss the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's highest authority. REUTERS/Caren Firouz (IRAN)