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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (294)	7/13/2002 7:06:55 PM
From: goldsnow	Respond to of 3959

A security official said police had arrested 142 people, including a number of hard-line vigilantes, during the protest. Another official said 94 people were also detained in Isfahan. Taheri, in his resignation letter, accused those in power of using hard-line thugs to enforce their rule. "Society's dregs and fascists who consist of a concoction of ignorance and madness, whose umbilical cords are attached to the centers of power... (act as) philosophers, as sheriffs, as rulers, as jurists and as judges," he said. reuters.com