Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, speaking through his representative on the National Security Council, called Monday for criminal acts to be handled through proper legal channels. Khamenei ordered the closure of a substandard prison facility and reminded officials that “criminal acts should be confronted by government bodies only within the framework of the law and no one can deny the legal rights of any individual,” the representative, Saeed Jalili, quoted Khamenei as saying, according to the semiofficial Iranian Students News Agency.
