Iran’s Prosecutor General Replaced
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Mohammad Kazem Movahedi Azad was appointed as the new prosecutor general of Iran on Sunday.
Movahedi Azad has replaced Mohammad Jafar Montazeri as the prosecutor general under a decree issued by Judiciary Chief Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejei.
The former prosecutor general has been appointed to the post of chairman of the Supreme Court of Iran, the highest juridical authority in the country that supervises the correct implementation of laws by courts of justice.
In remarks in June, Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei hailed the Judiciary as a main component and pillar of the Islamic Republic of Iran, calling on the branch to push to implement the Document for Judicial Change and tackle corruption.
