How to click with Iran's Supreme Leader
May 10, 2004 - 2:07PM
Religious edicts are now only a click away after Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei launched his own Web site.
The site (www.khamenei.ir) posts religious decrees, speeches and the latest anecdotes from the man who has the last word on all state matters in the Islamic Republic.
Khamenei gives advice on ritual ablution and tells readers they should try to cleanse themselves before touching any official paperwork with letterheads including the name of God.
The site is run by a section of the supreme leader's office dedicated to preserving his writing and sayings.
In the biography section Khamenei tells how he returned home from his seminary studies to tend to his ailing father.
"If I have been successful in life, I believe that it stems from this good deed I did for my father," he said on the Web site which is written in Persian, Arabic and English.
Reuters
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/05/10/1084041318757.html