premise: "Those who enter the Assembly of Experts should be able to understand the complicated issues of modern world and present solutions to the leader and the policy-making bodies," he told a press conference, dressed in a smart three-piece suit.
  "The leader has shown he is willing to hear different views," Esmaili said, adding he would seek to boost links between non-clerical consultants and the Assembly members if elected.
  "We have more accurate information about people's needs because of our presence in universities," said Esmaili, who has formed a coalition with five other candidates in Tehran, and is working to have 40 other candidates representing 20 provinces join the group.
  Several non-clerical figures, most notably President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and parliament speaker Gholam Ali Hadad-Adel, have won key posts in recent years, in a change of the trend that prevailed the late 1980s and 1990s.
  However the term non-cleric is not synonymous with reformist and both Ahmadinejad and Hadad-Adel are conservatives seen as close to the supreme leader.
   What may occur if the leader is elected?
hypothesis: 40 other candidates representing 20 provinces join the group