Ghalibaf: ambitious 'public face' of post-Ali Khamenei Iran

Iran's speaker of parliament Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has emerged as the key negotiator and most high-profile figure of the Islamic republic's leadership as it enters a new phase due to the US-Israeli war.A pillar of the Iranian establishment for some three decades and one of its most prominent non-clerical figures, Ghalibaf, 64, has spearheaded the war effort and now leads the high-stakes negotiating process.