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Members of Iran's Islamic Basij militia wear funeral shrouds on August
8, 2000, to proclaim their readiness to die for supreme leader Ayatollah
Ali Khamenei. The banner reads, "We Obey the Leader." Iran's
conservatives, bolstered by public support from supreme leader Ayatollah
Ali Khamenei, closed the last major reformist newspaper and mobilized thousands
of protesters against press freedoms.
Last reformist paper here
Bahar publisher here
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