Posted on 10/08/2006 10:56:58 AM PDT by oldleft
TEHRAN (Reuters) - A senior Shi'ite Muslim cleric who has challenged Iran's system of clerical rule was arrested on Sunday after his supporters clashed with police outside his house in the Iranian capital, Iranian news agencies reported.
Ayatollah Mohammad Kazemeini Boroujerdi was detained with several supporters, Iran's student news agency ISNA quoted the deputy governor of Tehran, Abdollah Rowshan, as saying.
The Iranian authorities are wary of any challenge, particularly from top clerics, to the system of clerical rule that was established after the 1979 Islamic revolution by revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
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"Popular revolutions...tend to fail in...countries where the troops have no problem with firing on their own people."
This was evident in Moscow when the Russian troops were unwilling in the early 1990's to fire on the people when Yeltsin rallied their support. On another FR thread about this Mullah, someone reported that the Iranians are using Arab "mercenaries" in some of their security operations, so as to avoid this unwillingness to fire on fellow Iranians.
The clerics have to go. Not just one or two of them, but ALL of them!
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