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Article: IRAN: SCIRI LEADER PRAISES KHOMEINI, CRITICIZES UNITED STATES.
- Article from:
- IPR Strategic Business Information Database
- Article date:
- May 22, 2003
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Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) leader Ayatollah Muhammad Baqir al-Hakim, who lived in Iran as an exile from Iraq during the 10 years that Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini ruled Iran (1979-89), said in a 12 May speech in Iraq that Khomeini and Ayatollah Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr are "role models," Iranian state radio reported. "Those who relied upon real Islam became prosperous, but those who accepted American Islam ended up in the same position as the Taliban," he said in the holy city Al-Najaf, which he was unable to visit for 23 years until the fall of the Ba'athist regime at U.S. and U.K. hands. Al-Hakim told a crowd of some 30,000 supporters that ...
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