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| | NCRI Statement 02/01/98 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | Hassan Habibi, the mullahs' first vice-president, has reportedly submitted his resignation to Mohammad Khatami, the mullahs' President, according to the state-controlled media. |
 | | Massoud Rajavi, President of the National Council of Resistance, said: Habibi's resignation, only six months after Khatami took office, bespeaks of the fear, despair and demoralization of the highest officials of the clerical regime and is reminiscent of the resignation and flight of the shah's generals in the final stages of the monarchic dictatorship. |
 | | Before Rafsanjani's presidency, Habibi was the Minister of Justice and one of the officials responsible for the massacre of 15,000 prisoners in summer 1988. |
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