Qom's Society of Seminary Teachers issues warning to Rouhani

QOM, IRAN: An Iranian Muslim cleric holds a copy of the Holy Koran during a sit-in condemning Pope Benedict XVI's recent speech about Islam and holy war in the auditorium of the Feyzieh, the main seminary school in Iran's clerical epicentre of Qom, 130 kms (80 miles) south of Tehran, 17 September 2006. Religious seminaries across Iran shut today to stage protests over remarks by the Pope that linked Islam to violence as top clerics vehemently criticised the pontiff's remarks. All of Iran's seminary schools

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QOM, IRAN: TO GO WITH AFP STORY: IRAN -VOTE-RELIGION-CLERICS An Iranian cleric student looks at the courtyard of Faiziyeh religious school in Iran's clerical capital Qom, 120 kms south of Tehran, 18 May 2005. It was in this desert city where it all began 42 years ago: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini branded the shah of Iran a "wretched, miserable man", and set in motion a series of events that led to the Islamic revolution. Khomeini's theocracy, where Shiite clerics exercise absolute power, is now 26 years old

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Qom's Society of Seminary Teachers issues warning to Rouhani

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