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One of the Grand Ayatollahs has denounced the regime.
Grand Ayatollah Montazeri’s Fatwa

Grand Ayatollah Montazeri’s Fatwa: an Unfair Supreme Leader is Illegitimate

By MUHAMMAD SAHIMI in Los Angeles | 12 July 2009

[TEHRAN BUREAU] In a very important development, Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, the most senior cleric living in Iran, and one of the top two* marja’ taghlid (source of emulation) in Shiite Islam, issued a series of Fatwas, calling the Supreme Leader illegitimate and saying that he was working with the government against religion. Montazeri has called on people to take action against this injustice, even if they have to pay a heavy price for it.


The real agenda of the murderous mullahs.

Power to the people: Iran's government showing its true colors at home
Saturday, July 11th 2009, 4:00 AM
Even after security forces broke bones and spilled blood, thousands of Iranians took to the streets again this week to be met by tear gas, water cannons and worse.
These brave souls have refused to sit by while President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei run roughshod over their right to self-determination. In standing with courage, they have revealed the depths of the regime's power-mad brutality.
The internal crackdown is of a piece with Tehran's approach to the world. Khamenei and Ahmadinejad fund Hezbollah, Hamas, Iraq-based terrorists, the Taliban and radical Islamists throughout the region and beyond, even as far as Sudan.
The goal is to create a bloc of Muslim states that can expel American influence from the region, weaken Sunni Arab states and - coup de grace - return the map to its contours before that little blemish called Israel so rudely appeared.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2009/07/11/2009-07-11_power_to_the_people_irans_government_showing_its_true_colors_at_home.html#ixzz0L4oklbJi&C

Here is a piece from the WSJ on the minions of the murderous mullahs.


TEHRAN -- When the protests broke out here last month, Mehdi Moradani answered the call to crush them.

On the first day of the unrest, the 24-year-old volunteer member of Iran's paramilitary Basij force mounted his motorcycle and chased reformist protesters through the streets, shouting out the names of Shiite saints as he revved his engine.

On the fourth day, he picked up a thick wooden stick issued by his Basij neighborhood task force and beat demonstrators who refused to disperse.

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Members of Iran's Basij paramilitary force, on motorcycle, police a demonstration in Tehran on Thursday.
By the eighth day, demonstrators alleging that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had rigged his re-election were out by the hundreds of thousands. Mr. Moradani says he mobilized in a 12-man motorcycle crew, scouting out restive neighborhoods across Tehran. He battled protesters with a baton and tear gas. The demonstrators fought back with rocks, bricks and bottles. Mr. Moradani says he handcuffed scores of demonstrators and dragged them away as they kicked and screamed.

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