The council is composed of 12 jurists and lawyers who specialize in Islamic law and jurisprudence.
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Eric Lob,
The Conversation,
12 Mar. 2026
The other half is being written in the seminaries of Qom and the offices of the Guardian Council, where senior jurists are quietly running their own calculations about risk and reward.
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