Interior Minister Sadeq Mahsouli takes the rap for violence flare-up
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23-Jun-2009 (one comment)

Majlis raps interior minister for violence-tinged electionTue, 23 Jun 2009 10:28:16 GMTFont size :

Interior Minister Sadeq Mahsouli takes the rap for violence flare-up.

A group of Iranian parliamentarians have summoned Interior Minister Sadeq Mahsouli to address a number of questions regarding the June 12 presidential election and its aftermath.

Some 24 lawmakers asked Mahsouli to expound on a number of controversial issues, including the recent night raids on university dormitories and private residences by unknown groups, which have sparked a storm of protests in recent days, Tabnak reported.

Mahsouli took the rap for failing to identify and arrest the perpetrators of the attacks and leaving the issues in a haze of ambiguity.

He was also scolded for what the lawmakers believed to be “a lack of crisis management during the nine consecutive days of nationwide turmoil”.

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by rosie is roxy is roshan on Tue Jun 23, 2009 07:51 AM PDT

I think it's very interesting that press tv chose to say in the title that he "took the rap" because it is an implicit indictment that someone far more powerful than him is really responsible and 'gets away with murder'. And we all know who that is.

This is also known as being 'the fall guy."

The fall guy among the fallen...



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