(Guardian-UK) Saeed Kamali Dehghan - A former general of Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guards has accused the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, of having blood on his hands over the brutal crackdown on the opposition, and described government claims that its nuclear program is entirely peaceful as a "sheer lie." "The inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency are fooling themselves if they believe that the nuclear facilities on and under the ground are only for peaceful purposes," he writes. "The leader said [in a fatwa] that Iran has only peaceful intentions with its nuclear activities. This is a sheer lie." "We undertook this nuclear gamble with the leader's knowledge - that's why we are paying billions of dollars into Chinese and Russian bank accounts so that they support us in international negotiations."
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