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Tag Archive | "Ayatollahs"

Regime Seeks to Appoint New “Grand Ayatollahs”

Posted on 20 November 2009. Tags: Ayatollah Bayat-Zanjani, Ayatollah Dastgheib, Ayatollah Jannati, Ayatollahs, Fatwa, Featured, Grand Ayatollah Ali Safi, Grand Ayatollah Montazeri, Grand Ayatollah Sanei, Iran Supreme Leader, Jafar Sobhani, Khamenei, Khoshvaght, Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, Marja, Mesbah Yazdi, Mohammad Yazdi, Qom Seminary Teachers Association

(Rooz Online)
November 20, 2009
By Ali Farokhi
Following the escalation of protests by Iran’s senior ayatollahs against the regime, some members of the Qom Seminary Teachers Association (the most important organization of clerics affiliated with the regime) are planning to present a new list of “grand ayatollahs” under the supervision of Mohammad Yazdi, Ahmad Jannati and Mesbah [...]

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Clerics side with people of Iran

Posted on 17 November 2009. Tags: Assembly of Experts, Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi, Ayatollahs, Featured, Grand Ayatollah Montazeri, Grand Ayatollah Sanei, Grand Ayatollah Sistani, Iran Supreme Leader, Islamic Republic, Khamenei, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Marja, Qom, Rigged Iran Presidential Elections, Shiite Muslim Clerics, show trials

From Mowjcamp.com:
Ever since the fraudulent Presidential Elections in Iran in June 2009, the role of Shiite clerics from Qom and even Iraq in standing up to the coup government of Ahmadinejad and its backers has been unprecedented throughout the 30 year history of the Islamic Republic to say the least.

Indeed the positions held by senior [...]

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