People must choose their own path to heaven, and cannot be forced, President Rouhani told an audience last week. But days later, Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami directly contradicted him, saying that it was the job of government to enforce Islamic values, thereby guaranteeing salvation for the Iranian people.
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