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Example sentences for: ayatollah

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Meanwhile, the Post and Times report that Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, yesterday denounced pro-U.S.
Human Rights Commissioner Mary Robinson as saying in Tehran Sunday that Iran had assured her that the death sentence on Rushdie would not be carried out, although the Ayatollah Khomeini's "fatwa" against him "cannot be revoked."
Consider the Ayatollah Khomeini.
The Turin newspaper said that while Rushdie, the object of a fatwa issued 10 years ago by the Ayatollah Khomeini, still can't be free of the nightmare that some Muslim fanatic might try to kill him, "it is certain that Iran, whatever it does, cannot get free of Rushdie."
Barring some unlikely last minute intervention by the ayatollah, Kouri's conviction should serve to further increase tensions between hard-liners and reformers, making February's parliamentary elections all the more volatile.