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Top Iranian ayatollah denounces friendship with dogs as un-Islamic

I’m not kidding. As I write this, my two dogs are rolling around on the floor wrestling. After I finish this we are going for a walk in the woods. They suspect the ayatollah is just giving religious cover to national custom. They also think he probably is a damn cat lover.

By , a former contributing editor to Foreign Policy.
The Pug Father/flickr
The Pug Father/flickr
The Pug Father/flickr

I'm not kidding.

I’m not kidding.

As I write this, my two dogs are rolling around on the floor wrestling. After I finish this we are going for a walk in the woods. They suspect the ayatollah is just giving religious cover to national custom. They also think he probably is a damn cat lover.

Thomas E. Ricks is a former contributing editor to Foreign Policy. Twitter: @tomricks1

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