A 93-year-old Shiite cleric in Iran was elected on Tuesday to a two-year term as chairman of the influential Assembly of Experts, the Iranian news agency ISNA reported. The arch-conservative preacher Mohammad Ali Kermani replaces the former chairman, Ahmad Jannati, who is 97. The council is composed of 88 Shiite cleric who are elected to eight-year terms. They determine the successor to the supreme leader in the event of his death. Two members of the council were killed in the helicopter accident at the weekend: president Ebrahim Raisi and Mohammed-Ali Ale-Hashem, an imam who led the key Frida…