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...weeks after the contested results of Iran's presidential elections led to widespread street riots and demonstrations across the country, the Islamic republic pronounced its harshest threat yet to protesters. At the official ceremony for Friday prayers, Ayatullah Ahmad Khatami, a hard-line cleric who often delivers the sermon, said those who agitate on the streets were "waging war against God," a crime that carries the death sentence. (See TIME's photos of Iran protests around the world...
Many people I talked to at the protest said they were there because they wanted Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei to consider their large number before giving his June 19 sermon, which many believed would be decisive for the course of the country. But at Friday prayers the Ayatullah took a hard line, disappointing millions who had been hoping for leniency in the form of a recount or even a re-election. He said the election had been fair and that people should rest assured the "Islamic republic does not betray the votes of the people." Khamenei also warned that...
...Whether or not they attended the prayer service, Mousavi's supporters were planning to hold their own rally in Tehran on Saturday. The Supreme Leader's sermon may now contain important clues as to how the basij and other security forces will respond. The opposition candidate's supporters inside the regime are also working hard to reinforce his case for reversing last Friday's announcement. The combination of pressure on the streets and in the corridors of power has already compelled Khamenei to reverse his initial proclamations and order a recount of the vote. (Read "The Man Who Could Beat...
...special-forces guys, they hunt men. Basically, we do the same things as Christians. We hunt people for Jesus.' U.S. MILITARY CHAPLAIN, in a video posted on al-Jazeera showing a 2008 sermon in Afghanistan, where soldiers had stacks of Bibles in the local languages...
Mormons from across Cambridge were gathered yesterday at the Cambridge church—one of the first Mormon churches established in Mass.—for a special service broadcast live from Salt Lake City. But at 10:37 a.m., shortly into the second sermon, fire alarms began to ring...