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stefania
Joined: 17 Jul 2003 Posts: 4250 Location: Italy
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Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2004 6:53 pm Post subject: Khatami's Brother Backs Secular State in Iran? |
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Khatami's Brother Backs Secular State in Iran??
February 18, 2004
Middle East Online
middle-east-online.com
MADRID -- The time has come for Iran to have a secular state in place of the Islamic regime in place since the 1979 overthrow of the Shah, Spanish daily El Pais on Wednesday quoted the brother of Iranian President Mohammad Khatami as saying.
Asked by an El Pais correspondent if the time had come for a government non-religious in composition Reza Khatami, parliamentary vice-president and leader of the main reformist party as well as the president's younger brother, responded simply: "Yes."
Reza Khatami is one of 80 sitting MPs whom the conservative and unelected Guardians Council watchdog have barred from standing in Friday's poll.
In the light of that decision Reza Khatami dubbed the election "illegal, unjust ... and "a farce without liberty."
He called on his brother "to be stronger in the face of the new conservative parliament" he expects to win the poll.
Asked by El Pais if he feared imprisonment for speaking out Reza Khatami said the regime "has sufficient tensions to bear and has no need to create more.
"They can fill the prisons but reforms will continue," he insisted.
Iranian reformists, grouped around President Khatami, are bracing for defeat in Friday's parliamentary elections amid pressure from the Islamic republic's hardline judiciary.
Mohammad Khatami appealed to Iranians on Monday to turn out for the vote, notwithstanding that they are unable to vote for some of the candidates of their choice. _________________ Referendum AFTER Regime Change
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TeachESL
Joined: 29 Dec 2003 Posts: 214 Location: Israel
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Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 9:17 am Post subject: |
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I forwarded this also! When are the major media going to start reporting things as they really are??? |
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redemption
Joined: 30 Dec 2003 Posts: 1158 Location: California
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Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 9:34 am Post subject: s |
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The big television media can't be counted on for reporting real news - all they do is create pseudo-news and commotion... _________________ IRANIANS UNITE
PERSIA LIVES ON!!
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