| Reynolds, James 4 August 2011 | According to , Khamenei was the man Khomeini had chosen as his successor before dying |
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| He also suggested the US had developed a special variety of the virus "based on Iranian genetic information they have gathered", although he provided no evidence for the theory | Nevertheless, according to anti-regime change activist , in 2005 Khamenei responded to a remark by then- Ahmadinejad which had been as saying that the "regime occupying Jerusalem should be wiped off the map" by saying that "the has never threatened and will never threaten any country |
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| In 2009, Iranian blogger who was arrested for insulting Khamenei in an internet post, died while in custody in | According to him the opposers rejected the proposal because: i Evidences for were true only for the guardianship of an individual and it was not clear who held the guardianship when there was a council |
In 2002, after protests erupted in the capital, Khamenei intervened against the given to for arguing that Muslims should re-interpret Islam rather than blindly follow leaders.
20| CS1 maint: unfit URL Another ethnic Azeri is Rahim Safavi, the overall commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps IRGC and the most important military-security official in the country | Challenges following 2009 election protest Khamenei and former president In mid-August 2009, a group of unnamed former reformist lawmakers appealed to the — the constitutional body charged with electing and in theory supervising and removing the Leader — to investigate Leader Ali Khamenei's qualification to rule |
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| from the original on 9 April 2009 | 5 September 2015 at the The Slatest |
He also stressed that "Iran utterly condemns the behaviour of the Libyan government against its people, the killings and pressure on people, and the bombing of its cities.
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