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Iran makes arrests over torn Khomeini picture
[Al Arabiya Latest] Iran has arrested several people over the tearing up of a picture of the Islamic Republic's late founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini during anti-government protests in Tehran last week, a senior official said on Monday."Those people who were at the site (of insulting Khomeini) have all been identified," Tehran prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadai told reporters, according to ISNA news agency. He said arrests had been made, including one on the day of the Dec. 7 student rallies, without giving names or numbers. "They are all in detention and one of them has confessed," Jafari Dolatabadi added. The prosecutor also said there would be "no mercy towards those who insulted the founder of the revolution," the official IRNA news agency reported. Khomeini spearheaded the 1979 Islamic revolution and remains revered in Iran. He died in 1989. Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned opposition leaders on Sunday to distance themselves from protesters he accused of acting against the Islamic regime's late founder. "Those who shout slogans in the name of these people (opposition leaders), hoist their pictures and speak of them with respect are in a point which is the exact opposite of the Imam (Khomeini), revolution and Islam," Khamenei said on state television. "When you see this, step aside," he said to opposition leaders and defeated presidential candidates Mirhosein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, describing them as his "former brothers." Posted by: Fred 2009-12-15 |
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