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Coming soon: Saving Khamenei, Dumping Ahmadinejad?

by David ET on Jul.28, 2009, under Uncategorized

Beware of the possibility of the policy shift to save Khamenei, Velayat faghih (supreme leadership) and Islamic Republic by dumping Ahmadinejad. In fact he may not make it through the month of August.

Pro Ahmadinejad sites as well as Islamic Republic’s Television have already started the “dump the Ahmadinejad” process. There are behind the scene “save the face” maneuvers that are in the works.

Ahmadinejad is the product of the system of the Islamic Republic and its supreme leadership. Ayatollah Khamenei as the head of all armed forces is directly responsible for all the human rights violations and deaths that were caused after the coup and his speech and ultimatums during the Friday Prayer in June. All others responsible should also be brought to justice.
There is no doubt that this will be a retreat by the regime SOLELY because of people’s movement but the question is at least will those responsible for the coup and bloodshed be held responsible? This regime is good at sacrificing its goats through the past 30 years (e.g.: President Banisadr, Ghotbzadeh, Yazdi,…. all the way to the current reformists) in order to maintain itself.

This is no longer about election but it is about violations of people’s basic human and civil rights and murders and injuries in the past month.
Khamenei is directly responsible for the death of Neda’s and Sohrab’s and …and….. with his fatwas (religious orders) approving repression and not even once saying a word about those who were beating and killing people in the streets in plain clothes because he was the one who released their leashes (himself).

Khamenei’s recent order of closure of one detention center is just an attempt to distract from real issue and TO SAVE FACE as if the problem was in Kahrizak prison only and no other prisons or the imprisonments in general.  Also most of the 140 released are freed on very large bails and can be taken anytime. (e.g.: Children rights attorney Mostafaei released on 100,000 USD bail, Human rights attorney Shadi Sadr released today on 50,000 USD )

Indeed this will be and is a retreat and as the result of people’s insistence and struggles but the answer to watch for is: What will come out of it? Ahmadinejad is only the product and implementer. Sacrificing (The Supreme Leader and regime’s) puppet presidents has not achieved anything in the past 30 years.

I repeat: Khamenei is the head of all forces and therefore DIRECTLY responsible for all the bloodshed and he must be brought to justice and that should be the minimum demand.

If bunch of Shia Grand Ayatollahs are also considering moving from Qom in Iran to Najaf in Iraq is not necessarily because they opposed all this but because they are afraid of the day that they will have to answer in courts to Iranian people.

Latest supporting news:

Fundamentalist MP says parliament is considering a vote of incompetence for Ahmadinejad:http://salaamnews.ir/…
Several state-owned media outlets, mainly Ansar News, IRIB, PressTV and Keyhan have recently started to criticize Ahmadinejad rather harshly.
Sacked Intelligence Minister Ejaie has sent a letter to Khamenei criticizing Ahmadinejad rather harshly.

MP Hamid Reza Katouzian has stated that Mohsen Rohulamini’s only fault was to Ahmadinejad and called the killing of dissidents by the government ugly and shameful. This is while another MP Ali Motaher – who has sided with reformists in the past weeks – asked Iran’s judiciary to give up the name of Mohsen’s killer

Resignation letter of the Minister of Culture has been rejected by Ahmadinejad.

Besides Intelligence Minister Ejaie, as many as 20 high-ranking officials from that ministry have been sacked

Mohsen Rezaie thanked judiciary chief Ayatollah Hashemi-Shahroudi for ordering a quick review of the cases of the detainees of the post-vote unrest in Iran

Several prominent Shi’ite clerics are going to make a decision about leaving Iran and settling in Najaf, Iraq. It is expected that the final decision will be made within days.

Shahroudi’s 1-week deadline to make a decision on the prisoners.
Head of the investigation organization ordered to report on the detainees & detention centres to head of judiciary.

Khamenei ordered Kahrizak detention center to be closed

140 prisoners released today. Shadi Sadr is released.

Hashemi Rafsanjani stated in a meeting with faculty members of a university in Tehran denied there was a power struggle in the nation
Ayatollah Montazeri has released a statement that expresses concern over the current state of affairs. He also applauded the efforts made by various people to resolve the current state of turmoil. It has been also confirmed that Ayatollah Montazeri has met with Ayatollah Mousavi Ardabeli and Ayatollah Shabiri Zanjani

Karoubi: We must try to keep the Islamic Republic.

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