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On the recordSeptember 21, 2011
Ayatollah Khomeini is not a cleric, he is a butcher. Bashar al-Assad is not a political leader, he is a mob boss.
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Gary Ackerman
New York

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Condemning Khomeini and Assad as illegitimate and oppressive leaders.

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