TEHRAN – Ali Alqasi-Mehr has been appointed as the new prosecutor general of Tehran, replacing Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi who had been serving in the post since 2009.

According to Tasnim news agency’s Monday report, Alqasi-Mehr was head of Fars province’s Justice Department. He was replaced by Kazem Mousavi.

Jafari Dolatabadi will bid farewell to his post by the end of the week. 

Judiciary spokesman Gholam-Hossein Esmaili said Jafari Dolatabadi has been named adviser to the Supreme Disciplinary Court of Judges.

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