The Guardian Council, a body of theologians and jurists, is loyal to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
The opposition movement 31 years ago was led by the shah's nemesis, Ayatollah Khomeini.
Ayatollah Taheri, Friday prayer leader of the city of Isfahan, resigned in protest earlier this year.
"I don't know--ask Mr. Rafiqdoost, " says Abbas Maleki, a foreign policy adviser to Ayatollah Rafsanjani.
In the tape Ahmadinejad is meeting with Ayatollah Javadi Amoli, a senior conservative cleric.
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The idea was originally proposed by Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Seyed Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, Fars reported.
But Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq's most influential Shia cleric, is a stickler for democratic form.
The latter phrase dates to Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution that brought Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to power.
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Such figures, he says, can exert a moderating influence on Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
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Herman Zweibel, founded Fars with the government approval of the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini.
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Shiite leader Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani says only government forces should be allowed to carry weapons.
But it has the blessing of Iraq's most powerful cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani.
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"Mojtaba" is Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of Iran's Supreme leader Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Heck, look at Ayatollah Khomeini: for nearly four decades he was first name in crazy.
The conservatives, backed by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the country's supreme leader, hold him back.
In fact, it is Ayatollah Khamenei who appears to be the biggest winner from the election.
They were there to send a very sharp message from the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader, called fruitlessly on all factions to end their feuding.
In his sermon last Friday, Ayatollah Khamenei gave Mr Khatami public backing for the first time.
But the real power in Iran rests in the hands of the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khameni.
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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, has appealed to the citizenry to stand behind the Islamic republic.
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Mr Aghajari's sentence is now under judicial review following an order from supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
That is on a par with the number of executions this year by Ayatollah Khomeini's "revolutionary" courts.
There's also much speculation that Ayatollah Mezbiazdi may have his eye on unseating the current supreme leader.
Nearby, Hezbollah holds weekend training camps, indoctrinating Arab youth in the extremist literature of the Ayatollah Khomeini.
He is followed closely by the rogue regimes of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Iran.
The ayatollah had questioned the comprehensive power of Iran's supreme leader, suggesting he should be directly elected.
Talk of citizens' rights, they argue, means legalising immorality and trampling upon the legacy of Ayatollah Khomeini.
Khatami has openly sided with the challenger, Mir Hossein Moussavi, as has the reformist Grand Ayatollah Montazeri.
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Montazeri was once a confidant of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who led Iran for a decade after the revolution.
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