31 OCTOBER 1987, Page 29

Clerics and critics

Sir: Gremlins interfered with my article last week (`Heir to the Ayatollah') so that it read that Mehdi Hashemi was the first critic to be executed since Khomeni came to power. Unfortunately, that is far from being the case. He was, however, the first cleric to die.

Patrick Bishop

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