{"id":9281,"date":"2010-11-17T08:25:09","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T08:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/statements\/iran-protests\/9281-khamenei-visits-qom-for-third-time"},"modified":"2023-01-13T17:44:34","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T16:44:34","slug":"khamenei-visits-qom-for-third-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-protests\/khamenei-visits-qom-for-third-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Khamenei visits Qom for third time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"khamenei00\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-36205\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2010\/11\/khamenei00.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Khamenei\" width=\"150\" style=\"margin: 5px;float: left\" \/>NCRI \u2013 The Iranian regime\u2019s Supreme Leader has traveled to the city of Qom for the third time.<\/p>\n<p>According to state-run news agencies, Ali Khamenei visited Qom Saturday night and met with mullahs Javadi Amoli and Shabiri Zanjani.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After his first failed visit to the religious city, fraught with public embarrassments and failures, Khamenei decided to travel there for the second time last week and met with Makarem Shirazi and Nouri Hamedani.<\/p>\n<p>Despite numerous attempts by Khamenei and brokering by the regime\u2019s officials, including relatives of some religious authorities, to meet with the embattled regime leader, some religious authorities or \u201cmarja-e taqlids\u201d refused to meet with Khamenei, whose hegemony has been increasingly waning since the 2009 popular protests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NCRI &ndash; The Iranian regime&rsquo;s Supreme Leader has traveled to the city of Qom for the third time. 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