Khatami Warns Hard-Line Clerics
From Times Wire Reports
In one of his strongest attacks against hard-liners, President Mohammad Khatami warned of a social crisis if Iran’s ruling clerics keep misusing their power to stand in the way of democratic reforms.
“We should be worried that, God forbid, one day our people will feel the authorities are not meeting their real demands,” Khatami said at an Interior Ministry conference, according to the official Islamic Republic News Agency.
The hard-liners have sought to reassert their power after losing control of parliament last February.
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