Editing Assembly of Experts (section)

==1979 Assembly of Experts elections==
As the 3 August 1979 elections for the Assembly of Experts drew near, [[Ruhollah Khomeini]] began to signal to Iranians which candidates they should support and which they should avoid. He characterized the opposition as Westernized intellectuals, Marxists, and morally corrupt secular groups who neither believed in Islam or who opposed the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The results of the Assembly of Experts election fulfilled Ayatollah Khomeini's objectives as sixty-eight percent of the elected representatives were clerics, with fifty out of the seventy-three members being part of the clergy.<ref>{{cite book|author=Arshin Adib-Moghaddam|title=A Critical Introduction to Khomeini|date=2014|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|isbn=978-1-107-72906-3|pages=109–116}}</ref>