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Yousef Sanei

Mentioned most frequently as Montazeri's successor; office trashed by basijis

AFP: Around 1,000 members of Iran's Basij Islamic militia attacked offices of pro-reform cleric Grand Ayatollah Yusuf Sanei in the central shrine city of Qom, a reformist website reported on Tuesday. The plainclothes militiamen broke the windows of Sanei's office and insulted and beat up his staff, Norooznews.ir, the website of leading reformist party the Islamic Iran Participation Front, said. They also put up posters of Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei, who has been a staunch defender of hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's controversial June re-election and who ordered a post-election crackdown on opposition protests >>>

>>> Video: Speech after June, 2009, elections, condemning vote fraud and show trials

Wikipedia: Grand Ayatollah Yousef Sanei is an Iranian scholar, renowned theologian and Islamic philosopher. He is known as a senior reformist cleric and a Grand Marja of Shia Islam. Born in Isfahan in 1937, he quickly rose to high ranks in his seminary studies at Qom's Hawzahs, and ranked first in the advanced level examinations in 1955, and was thus awarded the commendation of Grand Ayatollah Borujerdi for his exceptional achievement. Sanei retired as the head of the Guardian Council in 1988 and has not held any political office since >>>

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vildemose

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

by vildemose on Wed Dec 23, 2009 09:30 AM PST


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vildemose

It seems that a minority of

by vildemose on Wed Dec 23, 2009 08:10 AM PST

It seems that a minority of thugs armed to the teeth are holding an entire nation captive. How do you defeat this criminal bunch??


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Mormon Socialist

He's an interesting figure

by Mormon Socialist on Wed Dec 23, 2009 02:02 AM PST

...but not completely progressive.  Relatively so, of course, compared to Khamenei et al.

There was an interesting little segment on Ayatollah Sane'i shown on Aljazeera (English) a year or two ago - he was a very amiable interview subject, and came across quite well.  Of course, he's been quoted elsewhere (perhaps out of context) making other, rather less-than-progressive comments, especially from the perspective of a Western audience.


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mahmoudg

Amen, Mr. Fateh

by mahmoudg on Tue Dec 22, 2009 07:29 PM PST

Montazeri, Rafasanjani, Khatami, Moussavi, Khamenei, Antarinejcd, etc. etc. etc.  Any one who in any shape or form helped or continues to help this regime is an enemy to humanity and must be annihilated.


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Emil

Baboon with turban...

by Emil on Wed Dec 23, 2009 11:22 AM PST

Sanei looks like a Baboon with turban...Monkeys would probably feel at home to follow him as a "Marja Thaglid"...

Good replacement for the dead akhond Montazeri (Gorbeh nareh) who was "Marja Taghlid" for cats...

 

 


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Faramarz_Fateh

Basijies should have

by Faramarz_Fateh on Tue Dec 22, 2009 03:22 PM PST

**** At the risk of being banned and or deleted ****

The Basijies should have "taken care" of the guy while they were at it.

One less Ayatollah = one step closer to secular democracy

 


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