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Another Ayatollah Cracks?

By The Daily Dish
Jul 9 2009, 11:39 AM ET

From an unconfirmed tweet-blog:

Ayatollah Mousavi Tabrizi, an Attorney General in the Khomeini era, declares :

- Janati's remarks at Friday sermon are against religious and Iranian law
- announcing that "confessions" are being "taken" is a serious breach of law
- not allowing peaceful protests is unconstitutional
- keeping prisoners without warrants after 24 hours is illegal

He warns all judges that any such warrants would be criminal, baseless, and directly conflict  "Leader's Differentiation of Friends & Foes" declarations. He also announces that "Confrontation" or "dispersement" of peaceful gatherings and demonstrations is a direct violation of constitutional rights, "No matter who orders it."



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