“The resignation of Mr Larijani has been accepted and Saeed Jalili will be replacing him,” government spokesman Gholam Hossein Elham was quoted as saying by several Iranian news agencies.Khaleej Times Online - Larijani successor Jalili is Ahmadinejad ally
Jalali was born in 1965 in Iran’s holy second city of Mashhad. He started his diplomatic career in 1989 and has worked in the office of the country’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
One idiot replaces another. Obviously Putin must have known what mess there was, and so he decided to hear it right from the horse's mouth, when he went straight to the top man Seyyed Khamenei.