June 4, 2004

Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei gives a speech during a ceremony marking the 15th anniversary of the death of his predecessor Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini at Khomeini's mausoleum in the southern outskirts of Tehran. Khamenei dismissed Iraq's new caretaker administration as a 'lackey' government at the beck and call of the United States.(AFP/Behrouz Mehri)

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