Word: aghajari
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...about 9/11 any more. He is the legitimate President." - By James Carney and John F. Dickerson IRAN Win One, Lose One The battle for control of Iran is intensifying. Conservative clerics fired a warning shot by sentencing to death a prominent reform advocate, academic and journalist Hashem Aghajari, for allegedly renouncing Islam. Aghajari's supporters say his only "crime" had been to call for reform within the Islamic clergy; his lawyers hope to have the sentence overturned on appeal. Another prominent pro-reform figure, Abbas Abdi, was also arrested. But there was good news for the reform movement...