Reformist Leader Issues Warning to Hard-Liners
From Times Wire Reports
Iran’s Islamic establishment may face the same fate as the country’s deposed shah if student calls for reform continue to be ignored, the leader of the largest reformist group said.
Mohammad Reza Khatami, head of the Islamic Iran Participation Front, said students will “break from the establishment” if they feel they’re being ignored.
“The main reason for the fall of the former regime was its resistance against student calls for freedom and justice,” the official IRNA news agency quoted Khatami, the president’s younger brother, as saying.
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