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IRAN: Khatami warns of ‘dire consequences’ to crackdown

By Alexandra Zaviswriter 
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Reformist former President Mohammad Khatami today warns that the decision to prohibit demonstrations in Iran could have ‘dire consequences.’

According to an article on NOW Lebanon, Khatami says, ‘Linking the healthy movements of the people with foreign interference is a flawed political practice, which leads to alienating the people from the government.”

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He says there is still a chance to resolve the crisis triggered by the reelection of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and he repeats calls for an independent commission to review allegations that the June 12 poll was marred by fraud.

Read more at NOW Lebanon.

— Alexandra Zavis in Los Angeles
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Alexandra Zavis

Alexandra Zavis is a former writer and editor on the Los Angeles Times’ Foreign Desk who has reported from more than 40 countries. She spent a decade with the Associated Press, covering Liberia, Sierra Leone, Congo, Sudan, Somalia, Iraq and Afghanistan, among other war-torn places. After joining The Times in 2006, she has served as a Baghdad correspondent and as a California reporter covering poverty and veterans issues. She is a recipient of the American Academy of Diplomacy’s Arthur Ross Award for distinguished reporting on foreign affairs and was part of teams of reporters awarded the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi Award for foreign correspondence and APME’s International Perspective Award. She is a graduate of Oxford University and City University in London.

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