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Posted on 12/07/2003 9:48:25 PM PST by nuconvert
Iran Reformers Protest Clerics' Crackdown
By ALI AKBAR DAREINI Associated Press Writer
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Hundreds of reformist lawmakers, students and political activists held a daylong fast Monday to protest a crackdown on freedoms by Iran's hard-line clerics.
``We are refusing to eat and drink today to protest the lack of legitimate freedoms and violation of the basic human rights of political prisoners,'' leading reformist lawmaker Ali Shakourirad told The Associated Press.
Shakourirad is among more than 110 fasting reformist lawmakers from Iran's 290-seat parliament.
Iran has been embroiled in a power struggle between elected reformers supporting President Mohammad Khatami's program of peaceful democratic reforms and hard-liners resisting them through powerful, but unelected, bodies they control.
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