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Testimony Ayatollah Dr. Mehdi Haeri Khorshidi Iranian National Conference Committee on International Relations U.S. House of Representatives Iran Sanctions Act - One Year Later July 23, 1997 (excerpt) I speak here today on behalf of all the Iranian people who yearn for freedom, not for any single group or organization. It is not without considerable personal risk that I have come here today for we all are only too well aware of the Tehran regime's penchant for assassinating its opponents and critics, but the work you and we are doing is of greater importance than one man and must not...

'May God Be Our Guide' Ayatollah Medhi Haeri Khorshidi/ Wall Street Journal: June 16, 2005 Muslims must understand that participation in Friday's presidential election in Iran is haram, that is, it is unclean according to religious principles and reasonable logic. Therefore it is forbidden to participate. Whoever would participate in this process would be a full partner in the destruction of Iran by the current regime, a partner in its criminal behavior in the past, in the present and in the future. I am speaking not only on behalf of myself, but on behalf of the thousands of Muslim clerics...