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Zitat:Top clerics blast Iran regime as vote nears==> Mullah ist eben nicht gleich Mullah
By Agence France Presse (AFP)
Thursday, May 12, 2005
QOM, Iran: Two of Iran's most senior dissident pro-reform Shiite clerics have hit out at the Islamic regime ahead of next month's presidential election, accusing hard-liners of failing to deliver on revolutionary promises of fundamental freedoms.Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri and Grand Ayatollah Yusef Saanei also voiced pessimism over the prospect for a free and fair poll on June 17.
"My point of view, and I cannot say more than this, is that things are not going in the right direction," said Montazeri, who is in his mid-80s and is one of the Islamic Republic's most prominent dissidents.
"At the beginning of the revolution the late Imam [Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini] and I gave promises of liberty, and these promises have not been lived up to," he said in a rare interview at his home in Qom, Iran's clerical capital just south of Tehran.
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Zitat:Azeri defense minister to visit IranKundschaft ?
TEHRAN (IRNA) -- Azerbaijan's Minister of Defense Lieutenant General Safar Abiyev, heading a high-ranking delegation, is to visit Iran, it was announced here on Wednesday.
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Shamkhani and his Azeri counterpart are scheduled to review ways of expanding defense and military cooperation.
Abiyev and his accompanying delegation are also to inspect some defense facilities in Iran, according to the report.
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