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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
Nov 6 2009, Tiam

An unassuming college math student has become an unlikely hero to many in Iran for daring to criticize the country’s most powerful man to his face.

Mahmoud Vahidnia has received an outpouring of support from government opponents for the challenge –..

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