Leading clerics defy Ayatollah on Iran election
NYT (via MSNBC) / Michael Slackman and Nazila Fathi
05-Jul-2009 (3 comments)

CAIRO - The most important group of religious leaders in Iran called the disputed presidential election and the new government illegitimate on Saturday, an act of defiance against the country’s supreme leader and the most public sign of a major split in the country’s clerical establishment.

A statement by the group, the Association of Researchers and Teachers of Qum, represents a significant, if so far symbolic, setback for the government and especially the authority of the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, whose word is supposed to be final. The government has tried to paint the opposition and its top presidential candidate, Mir Hussein Moussavi, as criminals and traitors, a strategy that now becomes more difficult — if not impossible.

“This crack in the clerical establishment, and the fact they are siding with the people and Moussavi, in my view is the most historic crack in the 30 years of the Islamic republic,” said Abbas Milani, director of the Iranian Studies Program at Stanford University. “Remember, they are going against an election verified and sanctified by Khamenei.”

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Monarchists' View of Events in Iran

by wgm1919 on Sun Jul 05, 2009 07:42 AM PDT

Abbas Milani, a monarchist now at Stanford U. and usually giving views on VoA (CIA TV) gives insights.


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he had training from IR and always sucked!!!!

by rish kosh (not verified) on Mon Jul 06, 2009 07:23 AM PDT

WGM your comments are so transparent and your IR support so blinded and brainwashed
do you really think people are actually believe your IR garbage you spew on this site??? are you actually this dumb? I cant believe you are an Iranian since most Iranians are very intelligent...Oh I got it you are one of those Lebanese Hezbollah guys beating and killing Iranians ...well you should be afraid I guess your golden egg goose is about to become my jujeh kabab!!


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Farrokh_Tehranzadeh

How do you know?!

by Farrokh_Tehranzadeh on Sun Jul 05, 2009 09:52 PM PDT

Hmmm...w-g-m. huh?

Is that short for?...Never mind!
I am not very good at what acronyms stand for. But I bet other readers can come up with some good ones!...

Let me ask you these, though:

How do you know Dr. Milani is a monarchist?
How do you know being a monarchist is a bad thing?
How do you know "VoA" is (CIA TV)?

I am sure your respected Amme Joon loves you very much and thinks you are a legendary journalist, but by ckecking out your contributions to Iranian.com I have concluded that you utterly suck and I am left to wonder: Were you always this miserably pitiful? Or, did you receive some sort of professional training for it?


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