Iran: Rafsanjani calls political prisoners to be freed
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Hadi Nili tweeted that Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani at Friday Prayer called Iranian authorities “to free [political] figures and not let enemy be happy of our behaviour.”
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Hadi Nili tweeted that Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani at Friday Prayer called Iranian authorities “to free [political] figures and not let enemy be happy of our behaviour.”
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If Rafsanjani were a true “reformist”, he would take off his turban and proclaim that the real enemies of the people of Iran are the not the United States or the West, but the old clerics who would keep his country mired in the traditions of the Dark Ages.