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05 Jul 2009 01:37 pm
Meanwhile, Back On Planet Earth
Some very
significant news from Iran: Rafsanjani may have made headway in Qom. A major statement by a leading clerical group has all but declared the regime created by the coup illegitimate:
The editorial was written by Hossein Shariatmadari, who was picked by the supreme leader to run the newspaper. The
clerics’ statement chastised the leadership for failing to adequately
study complaints of vote rigging and lashed out at the use of force in
crushing huge public protests. It even directly criticized the Guardian Council, the powerful group of clerics charged with certifying elections.
“Is
it possible to consider the results of the election as legitimate by
merely the validation of the Guardian Council?” the association said. Perhaps
more threatening to the supreme leader, the committee called on other
clerics to join the fight against the government’s refusal to
adequately reconsider the charges of voter fraud. The committee invoked
powerful imagery, comparing the 20 protesters killed during
demonstrations with the martyrs who died in the early days of the
revolution and the war with Iraq, asking other clerics to save what it
called “the dignity that was earned with the blood of tens of thousands
of martyrs.”
This is not over. It is just beginning.
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