Report: 40 senior clerics want election results annulled
huffington post
22-Jun-2009 (4 comments)

The intense infighting among Iran's clerical establishment appeared to play out in new dramatic fashion on Monday. Via reader Art, the news site Peiknet reported that Ayatollah Rafsanjani has a letter signed by 40 members of the powerful 86-member Assembly of Experts calling for the annulment of the recent presidential election results.Moreover, the letter (the authenticity of which has, again, not been verified) charges that the arrest of Rafsanjani's daughter Faezeh on Sunday was a way to exert pressure on him, and that she was followed and identified by the intelligence services during the rally. More translation via a reader: It says Khamenai has lung cancer and wanted to have his son as Supreme Leader (the position that Rafsanjani wants), and that the attempt to alter the election results was done in an attempt by Khamenei to eventually allow his son Mojtaba to replace him. It says that at the core the argument is not just about Mousavi but the overall system of government, as it's becoming a like Monarchy rather than a republic. So far, it says, most of the clerics have not accepted Ahmadinejad presidency, and quotes Ayatollah Javadi Amoly saying of the attack on Tehran University students, 'no Muslim will destroy another's property, they must be foreigners.'

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rosie is roxy is roshan

Unconfirmed but keep your fingers crossed

by rosie is roxy is roshan on Mon Jun 22, 2009 06:07 AM PDT

 The item (above in full) is from huffingtonpost.com, but the linkv’vevprovided is,directly to the letter on peiknet, because items on,v”hufpo”’ appear in a list, and thisvone is easy to overlook..I know the whole thing sounds like something out of a (very)  bad  novel, but fact is, hufpo only posts things that are highly credible...(Please use it as a major source)..  Anyway, we’ll see. Worst case scenario,,you got to read a (very) bad novel..


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rosie is roxy is roshan

Oh, no, the speculation always was that he was in Qom

by rosie is roxy is roshan on Mon Jun 22, 2009 09:41 AM PDT

and honestly for me after all this feeding it was a fact. I mean he's a power broker and that's where the real power is in this struggle. And he's a wheeler dealer, so where else are the wheels? But this...scenario..in this letter..it's..so..bizarre..that to even be a real possibility,...let alone probable..I think...

Only in Iran.


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Bavafa

I have wondered where the heck Hashemi Rafsanjani is

by Bavafa on Mon Jun 22, 2009 09:28 AM PDT

And why he has been so absent in all of this.  I have also wondered if arresting his family members has been to force him to submission.

I have wondered about him but have not been under any delusion that he is any thing better.

Mehrdad


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I've heard

by Mazdak (not verified) on Mon Jun 22, 2009 09:26 AM PDT

the same things from the relatives in Tehran. Khaemeni's sickness has been rumoured for sometime now, mind you. He may just be like Hyman Roth in Godfather 2, pretending to be at death bed but to quote Michael Corlone "he thinks he'll live forever." Gangster analogy is very apt in this case. Pepe Escobar has also said that this is much more about Khemanei succession that just AN. This is the moment that the ultra right-wing is trying to liquidate the moderates and consolidate power altogether. There is one caution though. The hard core Khomeinists were never high up in Shi'a establishment. They are really a political lot who hasn't been afraid of attacking and humiliating grand Ayatollahs before. Take their treatment of Grand Ayatollah Shariatmadari (an ethinc Azeri and senior to Khomeini) and Montazeri, the one time heir to Khomeini. In other word they can just dismiss and ignore this request at their own peril.


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