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Supreme Leader attends Ayatollah Hakim`s memorial service

IRNA

Tehran, Aug 31, IRNA -- Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution 
Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei on Sunday took part in a memorial service
held for Head of the Supreme Assembly of the Islamic Revolution in 
Iraq (SAIRI) Ayatollah Mohammad Baqer Hakim. 
President Mohammad Khatami, Majlis Speaker Mehdi karroubi, 
Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, cabinet members, 
the first vice-president, senior clerics and a number of ambassadors 
from Muslim countries were also present in the function. 
Ayatollah Mohammad Baqer Hakim was martyred on Friday in a car 
bomb blast in the holy city of Najaf. 
Hakim, who spent some 23 years in exile in Iran before returning 
in triumph to Iraq earlier this year, met a martyr`s fate along with 
his bodyguards. 
Hakim`s assassination took place as he was returning from the 
Najaf Friday prayers which he himself had led. 
Meanwhile, in an address to the ceremony, Secretary of the Supreme
National Security Council (SNSC) Hassan Rowhani condemned the bomb 
blast and referred to the United States and Britain as accountable for
the tragedy in Iraq. 
Rowhani said that a Zionist group affiliated to Mossad had visited
Iraq one week before Ayatollah Hakim`s assassination and that so heavy
bombing was not the work of an individual or a novice group. 
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