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Ayatollah puts advice online

Reuters in Tehran
Monday May 10, 2004
The Guardian

Religious edicts are only a click away after Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei launched his own website.
The site (Khamenei.ir) posts religious decrees, speeches and the latest anecdotes from the man who has the last word on all state matters in the Islamic Republic.

The ayatollah gives advice on ritual ablution and tells readers they should cleanse themselves before touching any official paperwork with letterheads including the name of God.

The site, launched on Friday, is run by the supreme leader's office dedicated to preserving his sayings.

In the biography section, the Ayatollah tells how he returned home from his seminary studies to tend to his ailing father.

"If I have been successful in life, I believe that it stems from this good deed I did for my father," he said on the website, which is written in Persian, Arabic and English.

The website also carries Ayatollah Khamenei's prediction that US forces will be driven from Iraq in disgrace.