Clerical Leaders Defy Ayatollah on Iran Election

By MICHAEL SLACKMAN and NAZILA FATHI
Published: July 5, 2009
An important group of religious leaders in Iran called for the results to be thrown out, the most public sign of a major split in the clerical establishment.
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