The body includes national coach Bob Woolmer, ex-Pakistan captain Waqar Younis and former spinner Ejaz Faqih.

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The Red Crescent's Faqih said 230 villages in the Varzaqan, Haris and Ahar regions suffered 70% to 100% damage.

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"All those killed or injured in the incident have been taken out of the rubble, " said Abolhassan Faqih, the head of Iran's Red Crescent Society, according to Fars.

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But the philosophical base on which Iran's theocratic edifice is built is Khomeini's velayat-e faqih, the rule of the Islamic jurist, a concept the ayatollah developed in exile in Iraq in the 1970s.

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