Rouhani ally and former president Rafsanjani throws hat into ring for spot on council to elect future supreme leader
ed note–as I pointed out in several of the speeches/presentations I gave in Iran earlier this month, of the many ‘reforms’ that the US, Israel, and the West are aiming to achieve with this ‘kinder, gentler’ approach to American/Iranian relations is to attack the real seat of power in Iran, which is that of the Supreme Leader. As long as someone with the same mindset that led to the Revolution of 1979 sits in the throne as SL, it matters not what kind of president is elected. All can be rest assured that sitting on one of the back burners is a pot full of anti-1979 ingredients, one of which is a coup against the SL, either overtly in the office being done away with completely, or covertly, in that he is replaced with someone who is derelict in his duties and throws open the gates to Persia to the Judaized West and all its corruption.
All can be rest assured that the US, I$rael, and the West will be up to their eyeballs in skullduggery trying to influence the outcome of this future election.
Times of Israel
Hardliners in Iran have cracked down on activists, journalists and artists in the run-up to February’s elections in what some view as an effort to curb the influence of President Hassan Rouhani, Reuters reported Friday.
Dozens were interrogated and detained by Iranian intelligence, the news agency cited rights groups and opposition outlets saying. The government has denied the claims.
“The hardliners are wary of Rouhani’s influence at home and abroad. They fear it may harm the balance of power in Iran,” an anonymous senior official close to Rouhani said.
The arrests were said to aim to tighten conservatives’ authority and protect that of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei from presidential activism. Should Rouhani’s faction win in the February elections for the council in charge of selecting the supreme leader, it would empower reform-minded leaders.
Iran’s former influential president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said he would run in elections for the Assembly of Experts. The pro-reform Shargh daily on Thursday quoted Rafsanjani as saying, “God willing, I will come,” to run in the elections.
The 81-year-old Rafsanjani has close ties with Rouhani. His nomination will be a challenge to hardliners.
The assembly’s election is scheduled to take place alongside parliamentary elections in February.
Under the law, the 86-member body would be responsible for choosing a successor to Khamenei.
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“it’s useful to make them distrust each other, don’t you think, Avi?”
“Sure, Lior, sure, but how?”
“Well, how about, for starters, some articles in which we put quotes in their mouths?”
“Yeah, Lior, but they will deny them.”
“No, silly, not “named” mouths! Something like “an anonymous senior official close to Rouhani said….”
“Oy, no wonder you’re the supervisor of the final copy, you’re so smart!”
“it’s useful to make them distrust each other, don’t you think, Avi?”
“Sure, Lior, sure, but how?”
“Well, how about, for starters, some articles in which we put quotes in their mouths?”
“Yeah, Lior, but they will deny them.”
“No, silly, not “named” mouths! Something like “an anonymous senior official close to Rouhani said….”
“Oy, no wonder you’re the supervisor of the final copy, you’re so smart!”