The World - News from Aug. 9, 1985
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A ranking Iranian cleric, the Ayatollah Ahmed Musbah, said at a Baghdad news conference that he has defected to Iraq and will tour the world to denounce the leadership of the Tehran government. Musbah, 52, said he once held leading clerical posts in the Iranian cities of Qom and Rasht. He called the regime of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini “non-Islamic” and said he was forced to flee Iran after learning of a plot on his life.
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