A supporter of former Prime Minister and Iran's upcoming presidential election candidate Mirhossein Mousavi sits under a campaign poster with pictures of Mousavi (R), Iran's Late Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (C) and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, at a campaign centre for Mousavi in Ardabil, 839 km (524 miles) north-west of Tehran, June 1, 2009. Reuters Pictures 5 months ago

A supporter of former Prime Minister and Iran's upcoming presidential election candidate Mirhossein Mousavi sits under a campaign poster with pictures of Mousavi (R), Iran's Late Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (C) and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, at a campaign centre for Mousavi in Ardabil, 839 km (524 miles) north-west of Tehran, June 1, 2009.

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  2. Iranian men hold up portraits of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (R) and his predecessor, the Islamic republic's founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (L), during a rally marking Quds (Jerusalem) Day in Tehran on September 18, 2009. Iran's hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gave a keynote address to the annual mass rally of solidarity with the Palestinians at Tehran university on Quds Day, which was Khomeini's brainchild. Ahmadinejad said the Holocaust was a 'myth' and Israel was on its way to collapse, reiterating comments that sparked outrage around the world.
  3. Iranian women hold up a picture of Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock mosque, along with portraits of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (L) and his predecessor, the Islamic republic's founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (R), during a rally marking Quds (Jerusalem) Day in Tehran on September 18, 2009. Iran's hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gave a keynote address to the annual mass rally of solidarity with the Palestinians at Tehran university on Quds Day, which was Khomeini's brainchild. Ahmadinejad said the Holocaust was a 'myth' and Israel was on its way to collapse, reiterating comments that sparked outrage around the world.
  4. Iranian protesters, one of them wearing a wolf's head representing Israel, hold up placards bearing pictures of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (R) and his predecessor, the Islamic republic's founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (L), during a rally marking Quds (Jerusalem) Day in Tehran on September 18, 2009. Iran's hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gave a keynote address to the annual mass rally of solidarity with the Palestinians at Tehran university on Quds Day, which was Khomeini's brainchild. Ahmadinejad said the Holocaust was a 'myth' and Israel was on its way to collapse, reiterating comments that sparked outrage around the world.
  5. Iranian members of the Basij militia hold portraits of Iran's late founder of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (L), and Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali khamenei (R), during a rally outside the former US embassy in Tehran on November 4, 2009 to mark the storming of the American embassy by Iranian students 30 years ago. Thousands of Iranians staged the noisy anti-US rally in central Tehran as riot police armed with batons and firing teargas moved in as several hundred opposition supporters attempted to stage an anti-government protest.
  6. EDITORS' NOTE: Reuters and other foreign media are subject to Iranian restrictions on their ability to film or take pictures in Tehran. An Iranian student holds a placard bearing the images of Supereme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and founder of the Islamic Republic Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (L) during a rally outside the former U.S. embassy in Tehran November 4, 2009.
  7. EDITORS' NOTE: Reuters and other foreign media are subject to Iranian restrictions on their ability to film or take pictures in Tehran. An Iranian student holds a picture of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (L) and Iran's Late Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini during a rally outside the former U.S. embassy in Tehran November 4, 2009.
  8. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks under a picture of late leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini at a military parade to mark the anniversary of the start of the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war in southern Tehran September 22, 2009.
  9. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad waits for Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem before their meeting at the presidential offices in Tehran on November 4, 2009, with a portrait of the Islamic republic's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in the background. Muallem is on an official visit to the Islamic republic for talks on regional developments and bilateral issues.
  10. A pro-government Iranian female demonstrator, makes her way as she holds a poster showing pictures of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, right, and supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, at the conclusion of an annual demonstration in front of the former US Embassy in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009, in a ceremony commemorating the 30th anniversary of the seizure of the US Embassy by militant students on Nov. 4, 1979. A satirized drawing of the Statue of Liberty, is seen, painted on the wall of the Embassy.
  11. A pro-government Iranian female demonstrator, makes her way as she holds a poster showing pictures of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, right, and supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, at the conclusion of an annual demonstration in front of the former US Embassy in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009, in a ceremony commemorating the 30th anniversary of the seizure of the US Embassy by militant students on Nov. 4, 1979. A satirized drawing of the Statue of Liberty, is seen, painted on the wall of the Embassy.
  12. A woman holds up a sign denouncing Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (L) and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (R) near the United Nations headquarters in New York September 23, 2009. Thousands of people gathered to rally against the Iranian government and to protest its alleged human-rights abuses following disputed presidential elections in June.
  13. Iranian women attend a government-organized Quds Day rally in support Palestinians, as they hold posters showing supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, right, late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, and Jerusalem's Dom of Rock, center, in Tehran, Iran, Friday, Sept. 18, 2009. The ceremony was established in 1979 by the leader of the Islamic Revolution and founder of present-day Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Quds is an Arabic term for Jerusalem.
  14. Iranian women attend a government-organized Quds Day rally in support of Palestinians, as one of them holds a poster showing late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, left, and supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in Tehran, Iran, Friday, Sept. 18, 2009. The ceremony was established in 1979 by the leader of the Islamic Revolution and founder of present-day Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Quds refers to Arabic term for Jerusalem.
  15. A demonstrator holds a poster of Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as he attends a government-organized Quds Day rally in support Palestinians, in Tehran, Iran, Friday, Sept. 18, 2009. The ceremony was established in 1979 by the leader of the Islamic Revolution and founder of present-day Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Quds refers to Arabic term for Jerusalem.
  16. An Iranian man holds a picture of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (L) and Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (R) as others shout slogans during the weekly Friday prayers, the first since the start of the holy month of Ramadan, at Tehran University in the Iranian capital on August 28, 2009. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called in a speech at the prayers for the punishment of opposition leaders over the unrest unleashed by his disputed re-election.

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