Top Iran Cleric Criticizes Hard-liners In Sermon (ap)

FILE - Iranian influential former President, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani delivers a sermon during the Friday prayer at the Tehran University campus, in Tehran, Iran, in this Friday, Aug. 12, 2005 file photo. Rafsanjani is delivering the main sermon in the capital sermon this week for the first time since the disputed June 12 presidential election, and pro-reform activists intend to pack the hall to prove their movement remains vibrant despite the government's harsh crackdown. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, file)AP – One of Iran’s top clerics criticized hard-liners at the main Islamic prayers Friday, saying the clerical leadership must clear up doubts over the disputed presidential election and should release opposition supporters arrested in the postelection crackdown.

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