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July 6, 2009       Share:    

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/12/world/asia/12iran.html

Senior Cleric Says Leaders of Iran Are Unfit to Rule

[New York Times] Robert F. Worth - Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, a dissident who has often criticized Iran's ruling clerics, issued an unusual decree on Saturday calling the country's rulers "usurpers and transgressors" for their treatment of opposition protesters in recent weeks. Montazeri, 87, was a leader of the 1979 Islamic Revolution and was once designated the successor to Ayatollah Khomeini. But he fell out with Khomeini in 1989 over the execution of a large group of prisoners and other policies he deemed unjust.

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