Hashemi Rafsanjani cancels Friday sermon to avoid new Iranian crackdown
In a surprise move, Rafsanjani said he would not lead this week's sermon at Tehran university as scheduled, for fear of provoking renewed violence by security forces against supporters of Mir Hossein Mousavi, his reformist ally who says June's election was stolen from him.
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