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The assassination last year of leading Iranian dissidents by agents of the security services were carried out in accordance with fatwas (religious decrees) issued by senior clerics, a lawyer for surviving family members of those slain told Sobh-e Emrouz daily on Dec. 1
Dr. Naser Zarafshan said that court records show there is evidence proving that the serial murders were committed based on fatwas decrees issued by religious authorities. Those who issued the fatwas should be identified to the people, he said.
He did not specify the evidence or identify the clerics who had issued the fatwas. However, Zarafshan told the paper "those behind the serial killings have confessed to many more murders than the murders of the Forouhars, Mokhtari and Pouyandeh." [...]
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