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According to state-run media, the death of an Iranian cleric

Ismail Khomeini’s educational and research institute, headed by Mesbah Yazdi, said he had been hospitalized for the past few days with a disease of his digestive system. According to Iran’s state-run Press TV, the leading cleric played a key role in the 1979 uprising that toppled Iran’s Western-backed Shah, Mohammad …

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