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Iran's Friday Prayer
Iranian Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami, deputy head of the influential Assembly of Experts and a close aide of the president speaks during Friday Prayer at Tehran University campus in Tehran, Iran on August 14, 2009. UPI/STR

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Sanctions part of 'soft war,' Iran says
TEHRAN, Jan. 27 (UPI) -- EU sanctions on Iran are aimed at influencing upcoming parliamentary elections in the Islamic republic, a leading cleric said Friday.
TEHRAN, Nov. 28 (UPI) -- A senior Iranian cleric said Saturday the country will not be forced to give up its nuclear enrichment program by a resolution from a U.N. watchdog agency.
TEHRAN, June 26 (UPI) -- A senior Iranian cleric close to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called rioters enemies of God during a Friday sermon.
TEHRAN, Nov. 14 (UPI) -- Gone is the era of the United States as a superpower, as world opinion of America is poor, said Iranian cleric Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami in his Friday sermon.
TEHRAN, Oct. 17 (UPI) -- A leading Iranian cleric during Friday prayers blamed U.S. hegemonic policies in Iraq and Afghanistan for the looming economic crisis hitting world markets.
Iran says it will retaliate if attacked
TEHRAN, June 20 (UPI) -- Iran will retaliate with a "united roar" if Israel conducts air strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities, a senior cleric said Friday.
TEHRAN, May 2 (UPI) -- Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami, one of Iran's leading clerics, in a Friday sermon denounced Bush administration claims that Iran sponsors terrorism.
TEHRAN, April 4 (UPI) -- An Iranian organization has begun work on a documentary, "Beyond Fitna," that aims to do to the Bible what a right-wing Dutch politician did to the Koran.
TEHRAN, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- Iran's Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami said in Tehran Friday U.S. President George Bush is wasting his time on his ongoing Middle East peace tour.

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