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Iranian cleric rebukes Ahmadinejad for Chavez-Jesus resurrection remark - Alarabiya.net English | Front Page

   AL ARABIYA

A leading Iranian cleric has chided President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for saying that his late Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez will be resurrected along with Jesus, the International Business Times reported Thursday, citing the semi-official online news site Khabar.

“It would have been sufficient to simply send a diplomatic message without getting involved in ideological issues” or “religious connotations,” Ayatollah Seyyed Ahmad Khatami, Tehran’s Friday prayer leader, was quoted as saying. Ahmadinejad’s message was an “exaggeration,” he added.

“I have no doubt that (Chavez) will come back, along with Christ the Savior, the heir to all saintly and perfect men, and will bring peace, justice and perfection for all,” said Ahmadinejad, according to a translation by The Guardian newspaper............


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