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01 Jul 2009 09:20 am
Some Clerics Resist The Coup
A moving report from the Jerusalem Post:
The sources also reported that a prominent cleric
gave a speech to opposition protesters in Teheran earlier this week in
which he publicly acknowledged that the very act of speaking at the
gathering would likely cost him his life.
"Ayatollah Hadi Gafouri said that the Imam [Ayatollah Ruhollah
Khomeini] never wanted [current supreme Leader] Ali Khamenei to succeed
him. He even went to say that the Islamic republic died the day the
Imam did," one source said ... Other criticisms from senior clerics over the regime's handling of the elections
and subsequent protests included a report from a Persian news agency,
which on Tuesday quoted a senior cleric from the city of Esfahan,
Ayatollah Seyyed Jalaleddin Taheri-Esfahani, defending Mousavi against
the regime's criticisms.
The ayatollah was quoted as saying: "Is it a case of justice to
see that an honorable and modest Seyyed [a descendant of the household
of the prophet Muhammad], who until the last moments of Khomeini's life
was a dear and close companion of that grand leader, is now considered
to be a rioter and an agent of arrogance who must be punished?"
The Post also reports brutal beatings of people in the streets, and six public hangings of Mousavi supporters in Mashad.
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