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| | Ayatollah Khamenei - definition of Ayatollah Khamenei in Encyclopedia |
 | | When Khomeini died, Khamenei was elected as the new Supreme Leader by the Assembly of Experts on June 4, 1989. | | | In 1981 he was elected President of Iran, and became the first cleric to serve in the office. | | | Khamenei's term as ruler has been marked by numerous clashes with reform-minded members of the Iranian parliament, who have contested many of his decrees and decisions. |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Ayatollah_Khamenei
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| | Why War? Keywords: Ali Khamenei |
| | After Ayatollah Khomeini died, he was elected Supreme Leader by the Assembly of Experts on June 4, 1989. | | | ...ers from the 124 legislators, appealed to Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to intervene to resolve the crisis. | | | (Today's supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, lost the use of his right arm in one such explosion that year.) In retali... |
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http://www.why-war.com/encyclopedia/people/Ali_Khamenei
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| | Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Islamic Republic of Iran. Personalia. IranAtom.Ru. |
| | In 1989 he received the title of "Ayatollah" from the Theological School of Qom; and on June of same year, by the death of Ayatollah Khomeini's, he was elected Vali-e Faqih (Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic) by the majority of votes of the Assembly of Experts. | | | After Ayatollah Araki's death, Ayatollah Khamenei was nominated as one of the sources of imitation by the Qom's Theological School. | | | Later He was involved in the Islamic activities of 1963 which led to his arrest in the city of Birjand (Southern Khorasan Province). |
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http://iranatom.ru/media/pers/iri/led/leadere.htm
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| | May 01 |
| | Ayatollah Khamenei told a huge public meeting in the northern city of Rasht (Gilan Province) that all branches of government (the Executive, Legislative and Judiciary) are required to fight all sorts of corruption mercilessly, firmly and continuously. | | | He stressed the cooperation among the officials in the three branches of the government and advised the cabinet ministers to hold their regular meetings in the provinces so as to be able to get acquainted with the problems of people in the provinces. | | | Rasht, Gilan Prov., May 6, IRNA -- Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei on Sunday lashed out at the United States for adopting hostile policies against the Islamic Republic, saying the former is making fruitless efforts to dominate the latter politically and economically. |
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http://www.khamenei.de/news/news2001/may2001.htm
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| | FarsiNet News - News related to Iran, Iranians and Persians - November 1997 |
| | Khamenei said he, as a member of this nation, is duty bound to defend the supreme leadership, Velayat-e Faqih (governance of supreme religious jurisprudent). | | | Khamenei succeeded Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini as supreme leader after his death in 1989. | | | With the conservative Khamenei as supreme leader, Iran's moderate president, Mohammad Khatami, is nearly powerless to implement his own policies. |
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http://www.farsinet.com/news/nov97.html
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| | BBC NEWS World Middle East Profile: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei |
| | Ayatollah Montazeri, who is also one of Iran's leading dissidents, questioned the powers of the Supreme Leader. | | | Then in November 1999 Ayatollah Khamenei went on TV to defend a controversial Special Clerical Court, which had just found the editor of a leading reformist daily guilty of publishing anti-Islamic articles. | | | This led to the closure of his religious school, an attack on his office in Qom and to a period of house arrest. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3018932.stm
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| | Online NewsHour: Governing Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei PBS |
| | Following President Mohammad Rajaee’s assassination in 1981, Khamenei was elected president with a 95 percent vote. | | | From 1981 to 1985, he also served as head of the Supreme Defense Council and the Supreme Cultural Revolution Council. | | | By January 1979, with the shah ousted from power, Iran's new supreme leader Ayatollah Khomeini named his longtime cohort Khamenei a member of the Revolutionary Council. |
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http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/middle_east/iran/leader_khamenei.html
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| | Others 1994 |
| | the speaker of lebanon's supreme shiite assembly sheikh mohammad mahdi shamseddin said as stated by ayatollah ali khamenei slashing one's head with swords was against islamic law (sharia). | | | ayatollah banifasl is member of the experts council, and teacher at qom theological school. | | | he said that in his opinion the most meritorious person in this regard is ayatollah khamenei. |
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http://www.islam-pure.de/imam/others/others1994.htm
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| | The Iranian: News & Views |
| | Since being appointed the supreme leader on the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1989, Ayatollah Khamenei has extended his reach to include the affairs of Parliament, the presidency and even the theological seminaries, which long took pride in independence from government control. | | | But after the supreme leader was told that a presidential aide had vowed to persuade 100 deputies to confront him directly if he tried to kill the legislation, Ayatollah Khamenei decided to assert his political power. | | | By applying a hands-on approach to running the country, Ayatollah Khamenei has demystified the post of supreme leader and made himself vulnerable to criticism in the way any politician must answer to constituents. |
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http://www.iranian.com/News/2000/December/khamenei.html
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| | As to his marital status, Ayatollah al-Udhma Sayyid Khamenei is married and has six children. | | | This led to his attending Bahthil Kharij (graduation classes) under the supervision of Ayatollah al-Udhma Sayyid Milani. | | | She died of a heart attack in Muharram, 1409/1989 at the age of seventy-six. |
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| | Brief on Iran, No. 806 |
| | The arrest may deepen the divisions between Ayatollah Khamenei and the country's elected leader, President Mohammad Khatami
. | | | The court that brought in Dr. Yazdi is closely aligned with Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. | | | Street demonstrations were held throughout Iran in support of Ayatollah Khamenei, who said critics of the country's theocratic system were guilty of "acts of treason."
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| | Iranian Intellectuals Against Ayatollah Khamenei: "Your Regime Is Illegitimate..." |
| | Sa'adi also accused Khamenei of acting in violation of Articles 110 and 159 of the Iranian constitution by establishing the Special Attorney General's Office and the Court of Justice for Clerics. | | | Hashem Aghajari, who delivered a scathing address calling for "Islamic Protestantism" and was subsequently sentenced to death;[2]and Ayatollah Taheri, who in July 2002 published a letter declaring his resignation from his post as the official Friday preacher in Isfahan. | | | Sa'adi charged Khamenei with systematically undermining the Majlis' authority and its decisions, and of forcing the Guardian Council, which oversees it, to confirm the appointments of those who will follow his wishes. |
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| | Islamica Community Forums - Iran Cleric Rips Islamic Establishment |
| | Khamenei, who is the beacon of the hard-liners and has the final say on all state matters, apparently approved the decision to lift the house arrest. | | | But an old man in the holy city of Qom, with its blue-tiled minarets and snowy peaks, the very city in which Khomeini was taught, might just have pierced the cloak of supreme authority. | | | yep..well actually he accused khamenei of some stuff and tehy forced him to resign from his appointed succession. |
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| | February 05 |
| | Ministers of of oil, natural resources, drug control, and the advisor for state affairs are accompanying the Pakistani prime minister in his trip to Tehran. | | | Prior to the Supreme Leader's speech, the Air Force Commander Brigadier General Karim Qavami briefed the Supreme Leader on the combat readiness of his force and measures so far taken to augment scientific strength of the Air Force personnel and experts. | | | Tehran, Feb 23, IRNA -- Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei received the visiting Pakistani Prime Minister Showkat Aziz and his accompanying delegation here on Wednesday evening. |
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| | Ayatollah Khamenei said national strength will guarantee the identity and dignity of every country. | | | Tehran, March 11, IRNA -- Supreme Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Sunday received President Mohammad Khatami prior to his three-day visit to Russia. | | | President Mohammad Khatami, Parliamentary Speaker Mehdi Karroubi, Judiciary Head Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi and former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani attended the function. |
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| | Wampum: Return of the ... One True King (IV) |
| | Recall that both President Muhammad Khatami and speaker of the 6th Majlis, Mahdi Karubi, wrote, as did Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, Secretary of the Guardian Council, to Ayatollah Khamenei in his capacity as... | | | (and Ayatollah) Jannati -- elections were due to expediency and by order of Ayatollah Khamenei. | | | the Guardian Council and the Ayatollahs, even the Supreme Ayatollah. |
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| | Son of respected Ayatollah Ruhollah Khatami, President Khatami finished his early school years in his homeland. | | | President Khatami was elected as the fifth president of the Islamic Republic of Iran in may 1997 election by gaining 20,078,178 votes, almost 70 percent of the votes cast. | | | He was also appointed head of Kayhan newspaper institute by late Ayatollah Khomeini in 1981, where he later resigned. |
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| | EurasiaNet Eurasia Insight - Iranian President's Comments on Israel Sparked by Domestic Political Struggle |
| | In either late September or early October, the supreme leader authorized that the one of the unelective bodies, the Expediency Council, which is headed by Rafsanjani, would supervise the work of the conservative-dominated presidency, legislature and the judiciary. | | | That, however, has not proven to be the case, largely because Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has in recent weeks taken steps to distance himself from the hardliners’ political agenda. | | | By giving extraordinary constitutional powers to Rafsanjani, Ayatollah Khamenei in one stroke created a counterweight to hardliners led by Messbah Yazdi and other radicals. |
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| | Ayatollah Orders Review of Ban on 2 Iran Reformers - New York Times |
| | The four are Muhammad Baqer Qalibaf, who left his job as police chief to run and is viewed as a populist; Ali Larijani, the former head of state media; Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the mayor of Tehran; and Mohsen Rezai, head of the Revolutionary Guards from 1981 to 1997. | | | "It's appropriate that all individuals in the country be given the choice from various political tendencies," Ayatollah Khamenei, the ultimate judge for all matters of state, said in his decree, which was carried by the official Islamic Republic News Agency. | | | TEHRAN, May 23 - Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme religious leader, on Monday ordered a watchdog group dominated by his hard-line allies to review its decision blocking two reformist candidates from running in presidential elections next month. |
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/24/international/middleeast/24tehran.html?ex=1274587200&en=7b4f289e66d56a8a&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
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| | CNN - Iran: A new opening - 1998 |
| | Under the country's constitution, Khamenei can dismiss the president, and Khamenei is said to preside over what effectively amounts to a parallel government, made up of conservative-minded advisers, who shadow President Khatami's ministers. | | | While Khamenei enjoys the support of powerful elites in the country, President Khatami has the support of the masses who elected him -- particularly young voters, many of whom were born after the Islamic revolution and never experienced life under the U.S.-backed Shah. | | | Khamenei has the last word on foreign policy, said Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati during May's presidential election campaign. |
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http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/1998/iran/khamenei
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| | IRAN, ISLAM & INCREASING OPPRESSION |
| | On 10 July, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei appointed Brigadier General Ismail Ahmadi Moghaddam to the position of police chief. | | | On Sunday 28 August, Ayatollah Khamenei appointed Revolutionary Guard, Brigadier General Mohammad-Kazem Moazzenian as the new chief of the Intelligence Protection Organisation of the State Security Forces. | | | Iran Focus comments that the appointment of Ahmadi Moghaddam brings the country's police force under the complete domination of the Revolutionary Guards and signals a readiness to crack down harder on what the ultra-conservatives see as "deviation" from the country's rigid religious laws. |
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http://exorthodoxforchrist.com/iran,_islam_&_increasing_oppression.htm
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| | The American Thinker |
| | Khamenei is following his Quran, and it leads to death, plainly and bluntly said. | | | He has held this office since 1990, after the death of Khomeini in 1989. | | | The Zionists imagine that they have managed to gain mastery over Palestine and that Palestine is theirs forever. |
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http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=4146&search=arlandson
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| | Unlike his successor, Mohammed Khatami, who frequently clashed with the country's supreme leader, Ahmadinejad is a devout follower of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. | | | Pahlavi's Westernization programs alienated the clergy, and his authoritarian rule led to massive demonstrations during the 1970s, to which the shah responded with the imposition of martial law in Sept. 1978. | | | Khatami supported greater social and political freedoms, but his steps toward liberalizing the strict clerical rule governing the country put him at odds with the supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei. |
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| | S'CAN-IRANIC: Is Ayatollah Khamenei beginning to show some moderation on women's position in Islam? |
| | Ayatollah Sanei (who I should say has a rather dubious record in the first decade of the revolution as a revolutionary prosecutor) had in fact opined that women could become Grand Ayatollahs and/or even be elected to the position of the Supreme Leader. | | | This means that Ayatollah Khamenei, who has just limited his opinion to specific issues has yet to catch up with Ayatollah Sanei's position that women can indeed become Senior Ayatollah. | | | The Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Khamenei, |
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http://secularcaniranik.blogs.com/scaniranic/2005/08/is_ayatollah_kh.html
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| | Iran - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Iran |
| | The struggle for succession ended with the confirmation of the former speaker of the Majlis, Hashemi Rafsanjani, as president with increased powers; Ayatollah Ali Khameini became interim religious leader. | | | Pressure on the shah became so great that in 1979 he left the country, leaving the way open for Khomeini to return as head of a 15-member Islamic Revolutionary Council. | | | President Khatami celebrated his landslide election victory in June 2001 by sharing a platform with the figurehead of the conservative establishment, Ayatollah Ali Khameini, hours after their supporters had clashed on the streets of the Tehran. |
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| | Switching to 7th Majlis elections, slated for February 20, Ayatollah Khamenei called on the Iranian people at large to have a high turnout in the decisive event. | | | The Iranian nation will instead welcome those who deal with it peacefully and friendly, added the Supreme Leader. | | | Ayatollah Khamenei praised the Iranian nation for rushing assistance to their quake-stricken compatriots in southeastern city of Bam, saying the "great political move" carried a message to the ill-wishers of the Iranian nation. |
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| | AsiaMedia :: Story, Print Version |
| | Two of Iran's leading newspapers have been banned for criticising Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's alleged role in suppressing dissenting candidates in today's parliamentary elections. | | | Two of Iran's leading newspapers have been banned for criticising Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's alleged role in suppressing dissenting candidates in today's parliamentary elections | | | Since then, reformist President Mohammad Khatami has lost much support as a result of his perceived failure to stand up to Ayatollah Khamenei. |
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| | Iran's Conservatives Consolidate Power (washingtonpost.com) |
| | The transformation is symbolized by the country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, whose limited scholarly credentials were questioned even by his peers when he was selected 15 years ago. | | | Critics said his control is as far-reaching as that of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi before he was overthrown in 1979. | | | Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, center, Iran's supreme leader, led prayers on Nov. 14 to mark the end of the holy month of Ramadan. |
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| | Ayatollah approves move for closer Iran-U.S. ties |
| | TEHRAN and#8212; Iran's supreme religious leader has quietly approved a diplomatic initiative to contact members of the U.S. Congress with a view to improving relations, a senior Iranian official said yesterday. | | | "Iran's ambassador to the United Nations in New York, Nejad Hosseinian, was here last month and was given special permission by Ayatollah [Ali] Khamenei to start work and negotiate with American deputies of the Senate and Congress," said the official, who declined to be identified. | | | He pointed out that Ayatollah Khamenei forced the Guardian Council and#8212; an election supervisory body controlled by hard-liners and#8212; to release the results of February's parliamentary vote after it became apparent the reformers had swept the hard-liners out of power. |
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| | Ayatollah Khamenei criticizes "internal enemies" |
| | Khameneh'i was the fact that all along his six days show trial, the former twice Interior Minister adamantly rejected the legality of the CST and for this reason adamantly refused to appeal. | | | Dec. (IPS) Ayatollah Ali Khameneh'i, the embattled leader of the Islamic Republic crossed the Rubicon by publicly declaring war on reformists whom he denounced as agents and mercenaries of foreigners, including the United States and Israel. | | | Nouri to five years of imprisonment and the definitive ban of his newspaper, triggering a nation-wide support for him in the one hand and anger against the ruling conservatives and their flag bearer, ayatollah Khameneh'i on the other. |
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| | The IRGC Commander General Yahya Rahim Safavi and the leadership`s representative at the IRGC Hojatoleslam Movahedi Kermani had prior to the Supreme Leader`s speech voiced the IRGC`s readiness to defend Iranian nation and the Islamic establishment. | | | Tehran, Sept 15, IRNA -- Supreme Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei said here on Monday that all necessary financial and moral means should be provided for consolidating the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), which is the distinguished pillar of the immense building of the Islamic establishment. | | | The Supreme Leader said the past two centuries marked efforts by the arrogant powers and colonialists to plunder interests and resources of nationals and establish an international tyrannical systems in global communities but Islamic Revolution of Iran derailed the process of pillaging by international dictatorship, sparking strong hostility towards Iranian nation. |
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| | Guardian Ayatollah puts advice online |
| | The site, launched on Friday, is run by the supreme leader's office dedicated to preserving his sayings. | | | Religious edicts are only a click away after Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei launched his own website. | | | In the biography section, the Ayatollah tells how he returned home from his seminary studies to tend to his ailing father. |
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| | Ayatollah Khamenei: The Hamadan Doctrine |
| | Now the Supreme Leader of Iran Ayatollah Khamenei has laid down a new doctrine. | | | On Monday, July 5th 2004 Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has laid out a new doctrine in Hamadan Iran. | | | Israel desires that the US wage war on Iran. |
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| | IranExpert: Iran warns against an invasion by any country |
| | In comments directed at the United States, Iran's supreme leader warned Monday that his country can harm the interests of any invader, state-run Tehran television reported. | | | The United States has accused Iran of aiding an anti-U.S. insurgency in Iraq, but there has been no explicit threat of an invasion or attack against Tehran. | | | "The United States says that we have endangered their interests," Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told a crowd of thousands on a visit to the city of Hamedan in western Iran. |
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| | Guardian Khamenei condemns Bush address |
| | Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, today condemned George Bush's state of the union address in which the US president said his administration sought to uproot Iran's ruling Islamic establishment. | | | This president will also fail," Ayatollah Khamenei was quoted as telling students during a meeting in Tehran. | | | The ayatollah, who has the final say on all state matters in Iran and is also the commander-in-chief of the armed forces, said all US presidents since 1979 had sought to overthrow Iran's ruling establishment, but failed one after the other. |
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| | Following the fall of the shah in 1979, Khamenei became a member of the Revolutionary Council (1979) and of parliament (1980). | | | Khamenei was Iran's president from 1981 to 1989, when he was elected to succeed the late | | | A Shiite Islamic cleric who was the son of an ayatollah, Khamenei began his religious studies at a young age, and was briefly at Najaf, Iraq (1957), before he settled in Qom (1958). |
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| | Khamenei and Salman Rushdie |
| | Ayatollah Khamenei, in the above quoted statement, is trying to convey that the democratic position to support Rushdie, as *justice*, is in contradiction to respecting Khamenei's religion, Islam, which according to him, rather requires the murder of Rushdie for his views, as *justice*. | | | This is why in the case of Salman Rushdie, the Western world should have acted clearly from the start, and should have said it has *no* respect for Islamist justice, when it calls for murder of someone for their ideas, because that is contrary to the human rights. | | | Organizations like the UN must have upheld human rights of Salman Rushie, and the World Court should have summoned Ayatollah Khomeini, because of issuing such murder edict against Salman Rushdie, who had the human right to express his views freely, without the threats of Islamists to his life. |
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| | World's Largest Prayer Board Annointed.net News |
| | Elsewhere in his remarks, Ayatollah Khamenei underscored the importance of next year's presidential election in Iran and called for efforts to encourage a massive public turnout at the polls. | | | Addressing audience at Eid Al Fitr sermon on Sunday, Iran& supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that the United States and Israel are fighting an “undeclared war against Islam&; which has overshadowed Ramadan, the Muslims fasting month. | | | Ayatollah Khamenei also referred to the presence of Islam, spiritual values, unity, and vigilance in Iran as well as the people's participation in the country’s political affairs and the officials’ efforts to serve the people as important factors in the strength and dignity of the Islamic Republic. |
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| | Global Vision News Network |
| | Ayatollah Khamenei, referring to recent events in Palestine, lambasted Washington's indifference to the fact that the sentiments of world peoples have been hurt by the crimes being committed by Israel in occupied Palestine. | | | Ayatollah Khamenei deplored recent events in Palestine, massacre of innocent people, destruction of houses and arrest of the youth, calling the acts as "the most heinous crimes ever committed. | | | He said such self-sacrificing acts and devotion for the sake of national and religious interests reflect the climax of a nation's honor, courage and dignity. |
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| | irgc commander, major general mohsen rezaie, delievered a brief speech at the end of the review ceremony saying that irgc personnel and basij are all set to follow the orders of their supreme commander, ayatollah khamanei. | | | ayatollah khamenei warned western countries that if they consider themself as undivisible partners of the united states then they should know that islamic iran will have nothing to do with them either political or business-wise. | | | the ayatollah stated that islam revived the iranian nation, and its ideology intilled strength and power into its sinews. |
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| | US pursuing passive positions against Islamic awakening: Ayatollah Khamenei - Irna |
| | Zimbabwe president responded to US ambassador with "go to hell" | | | This has been testified by the recent remarks of American officials about attacking Iraq, Ayatollah Khamenei said. | | | The Supreme Leader said the failure of the Great Middle East Initiative was a sign of such positions pursued by the US government to control the struggles of nations against its hegemony. |
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| | Rushdie may be killed: Khamenei -DAWN - International; 20 January, 2005 |
| | In his Haj message, the full transcript of which was carried by the state news agency IRNA, Ayatollah Khamenei made no further reference to Rushdie. | | | Ayatollah Khamenei's reference to Salman Rushdie was made in a Haj message, and was part of a lengthy tirade against "Western and Zionist capitalists" and the US-led "war on terror". | | | Under reformist President Mohammad Khatami, who was elected in 1997, Iran's leadership has distanced itself from the order to kill Rushdie. |
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| | Ayatollah Ali Khamenei... President Hugo Chavez... www.vcrisis.com printer friendly version |
| | TEHRAN: Iran's supreme leader yesterday condemned US President George W Bush's State of the Union address, saying his administration sought to uproot Iran's ruling Islamic establishment. | | | Khamenei was responding to Bush's annual speech to the US Congress, in which he accused Iran of being "the world's primary state sponsor of terror." | | | The following remarks were given by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei yesterday with respect to Bush' comments about Iran's fostering terrorism during the State of the Union speech. |
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| | Ayatollah Khamenei calls promotion of science a national priority |
| | Ayatollah Khamenei also highlighted the need for university professors to pursue research which would be the most beneficial for the country. | | | Speaking at a meeting with university professors, Ayatollah Khamenei said | | | In addition, the academics said efforts should be made to prevent people from trying to use universities to promote the agenda of any particular political party or group. |
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http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=139862
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| | Iran - Open Encyclopedia |
| | His autocratic rule, including systematic torture and other human rights violations, led to the Iranian revolution and overthrow of his regime in 1979. | | | The new theocratic political system instituted some conservative but some more repressive Islamic reforms, as well as engaging in an anti-Western course, in particular against the United States. | | | After over a year of struggle between a variety of different political groups, an Islamic republic was established under the Ayatollah Khomeini. |
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http://open-encyclopedia.com/Iran
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