Khamenei was speaking to members of Iran's experts council, which is responsible for appointing and dismissing the supreme leader.
He became president of the Bundesbank in 2004 after serving on the German government's council of economic experts, an influential advisory body.
Germany's council of economic experts has proposed a debt "redemption pact" modelled on the American federal government's assumption of state debts in 1790.
FRANKFURT — Germany's council of economic experts issued a subdued assessment of the economy Wednesday and warned political leaders not to undo the labor and tax policy changes that have helped the country regain its competitiveness.
The typical specimen is becoming more empirical, pragmatic and ready for controversy, after a period when he was usually long on theory and reluctant to criticise colleagues.This change has now reached the pinnacle of Germany's "five wise men", the country's council of economic experts.
Among the experts Leon R. Kass, chairman of the President's Council on Bioethics from 2002 to 2005 and the public face of aging issues, cites an almost Shakespearean tidbit: only those people with three or more daughters or daughters-in-law have a better than 50-50 chance of not finishing their lives in a nursing home.
Retail experts and Swansea council's new leader, David Phillips, agreed Swansea must go its own way and not "replicate and provide the same experience that you are going to get in Carmarthen, Cardiff or in Bristol".
Back then, expert council officers were readily available for specialist newspaper journalists to interview and grill.
"We urge President Obama to seek a global ban on the commercial use of highly enriched uranium," said Thomas B. Cochran, a nuclear expert at the council.
The election for the Assembly of Experts, a council of eighty-six theologisns, is equally important.
