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		<title>Khamenei’s Secret Contingency Provisions</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 00:37:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rooz Online &#124; November 13, 2010 by Nima Farahabadi For the first time ever, one of the better known websites of the principlists (ideologues who claim to follow ayatollah Khomeini’s legacy) revealed “secret contingency provisions” of the leader of the Islamic republic for the “administration of the revolution and the country.” In a story posted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RFE/RL &#8211; Persian Letters: Khamenei, Ahmadinejad: It’s Complicated</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Nov 2010 05:23:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Siavashi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Khamenei: "...when the Supreme Leader says something, the president accepts it and acts accordingly"]]></description>
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		<title>Iranian cleric condemns incarceration of politcal dissidents</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 09:47:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Siavashi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Radio Zamaaneh) &#124; April 4, 2010 Iranian Shiite leader, Ayatollah Bayat Zanjani condemned the continued incarceration of Iranian political and social activists as a strategy to “hold on to power.” In a meeting with families of recent detainees, the reformist cleric maintained that there are some who struggle to hold on to power “at all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Regime Seeks to Appoint New “Grand Ayatollahs”</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:40:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Siavashi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clerics side with people of Iran</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:24:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Siavashi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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