Michael Slackman and Nazila Fathi, writing for the NY Times, report:
An important group of religious leaders in Iran called the disputed presidential election and the new government illegitimate on Saturday, an act of defiance against the country’s supreme leader and the most public sign of a major split in the country’s clerical establishment.
Read the whole thing.
Academy Award nominee Shohreh Aghdashloo (who played the heroic character Zahra in The Stoning of Soraya M., an outstanding film about a woman unjustly murdered in Iran via Sharia Law) shared her thoughts with me last week on the developments in Iran, comparing them to what she saw in 1979.