The Snow Ball is Now Rolling
Saturday 12 May 07
Not too long ago Mr. Mohammad Ali Abtahi, the legal aide to former president Mohammad Khatami between 1997 and 2005 announced: After the presidential elections of 2001 which took Mr. Khatami to the presidential house for his second term, a messenger informed the president that one of the senior clerics from Qom had a message for the chief executive. I went to the cleric. I was told to inform the president that if a woman was included in the president’s cabinet, he would issue a fatwa (religious decree) that paying taxes to the government would be a religious sin...