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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (35103)	7/27/2002 11:48:25 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Looks like the opposition that would possibly talk with us are all going to jail. The Mullahs are charge. Oh, well, once we have Iraq, Iran is an easy "down the throat." washingtonpost.com Iranian Court Bans Opposition Party Associated Press Sunday, July 28, 2002; Page A22 TEHRAN, July 27 -- A hard-line Islamic court banned Iran's leading opposition party today and ordered 33 leaders jailed for as long as 10 years each. The court said Freedom Movement leaders acted against national security with the intention of "overthrowing the establishment." The court is one of several hard-line institutions controlled by unelected clerics who have thwarted the reform efforts of President Mohammad Khatami since his landslide election in 1997. Freedom Movement party leader Ebrahim Yazdi, who was not among those sentenced, called the verdicts unconstitutional. The official Islamic Republic News Agency reported the reformist party's leaders were convicted of "acting against national security for the purpose of overthrowing the establishment . . . having contacts with foreigners, including diplomats of foreign countries, propagating against the Islamic republic through public speeches, collecting classified information and insulting the authorities."