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Iran’s Islamic system has been abused to deny the president real power, sapping public interest in next month’s election, the country’s top dissident cleric says. Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, an architect of the Islamic revolution, told Reuters Iranians would not vote in large numbers on June 17 because real authority lay not with the president but with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Full Story