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Rafsanjani condemns assassination of Ayatollah Hakim

IRNA

Tehran, Aug 30, IRNA -- Chairman of the Expediency Council Ayatollah 
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani on Saturday condemned the assassination of 
Ayatollah Seyyed Mohammad Baqer Hakim in Iraq and said it showed the 
ultimate cruelty and the depth of the vengeance the enemies of Islam 
bear towards Shiite clerics and theological schools. 
In his message, Rafsanjani stressed that the horrible crime proved
that the occupiers of Iraq, despite all their propaganda, have failed 
to establish the minimum security in the country. 
He further called on Iraqi nation, both Shiites and Sunnis, to 
develop unity and solidarity among themselves while keeping vigilance 
in the present sensitive and critical situation in order not to give 
any opportunity to the internal enemies as well as the occupying 
forces to stir up insecurity and chaos in the country. 
He also said in his message that the United Nations was expected 
to speedily prepare the ground for establishment of a popular system 
in Iraq to save its people from the occupying forces. 
The ayatollah further condoled with the Iraqi nation, Supreme 
Leader of the Islamic Revolution, theological schools in Najaf and the
Hakim Household over the great loss. 
Judiciary chief Ayatollah Mahmood Hashemi Shahroodi, too, in a 
message issued on the occasion, expressed his grief over the martyrdom
of the late Ayatollah. 
Also Ayatollah Hossein Nouri Hamedani issued a message on the 
occasion in which he stressed that occupation of Iraq has come to 
nothing but destruction and killing. 
International Assembly to Promote Proximity among Islamic Sects, 
Secretary for the Council of Guardians, Prosecutor General, Community 
of Combating Clerics, The Martyrs Foundation, governor generals of 
various provinces, branches of The Islamic Guards Corps, Friday 
Prayers leaders and the Office for Islamic Propagation in Qom 
Theological Schools were among other bodies and organizations to issue
similar condolence messages on the occasion. 
Ayatollah Hakim who was the head of the Supreme Assembly of the 
Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SAIRI), was killed in a car bomb explosion
in the Iraqi city of Najaf when he was returning from Friday prayers 
yesterday which he himself had led. 
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