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Meshkini accuses Taheri of ''fomenting division''
A leading conservative cleric launched a public attack on a reformist colleague's criticism of the Islamic state Sunday, despite appeals for calm from supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Ayatollah Ali Meshkini, prayer leader of the holy city of Qom, accused his former opposite number in the central city of Isfahan, Ayatollah Jalaleddin Taheri, of seeking to "foment division between the people and the Islamic system" with his shock resignation earlier this month. Meshkini's comments, published in the daily Iran, came despite repeated appeals from supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for rival conservatives and reformers to tone down their rhetoric in the face of unprecedented factional tensions within the regime.Ummm... I think the Revolutionary Guards just went over the top in that department. Is the civil war under way yet? Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2002-07-21 |
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