Centre for a Democratic Iran
March 2, 2016
The Godfather Is Back Rafsanjani showed that, by mobilizing part of the people in Tehran, he can change an accused of the list of Interpol, and two other criminals of the Assembly of Experts to the demand of the majority of the “reformists”.
Hashemi Rafsanjani is a great psychologist and has the control of the society well in his hand. “His Red Eminence” (L’Eminence Rouge) whose elimination was the most important common aim of Akbar Ganji and Abbas Abdi and the leftist Intelligence affiliated with the Participation Front, this year with the help of Akbar Ganji and Abbas Abdi and the same former leftist Intelligence became the director of the current which used to be called reforms current. His Eminence, who, according to his grandson in many ways has supported part of the opposition out of the country, well used the existence of the journalists who used to be simple employees of reformist media. He managed to use the political shift of Akbar Ganji and the more than usual invitations of the media of the main current given to him as an opportunity.
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This year the Godfather was in a list propagated by Seyyed Mohammad Khatami, a propagation that caused some people who forgot the chain murders and the executions of the decade 1980s and the assassinations out of the country to vote for Hashemi, Reyshahri, and Dorri Najaf Abadi to enter the Assembly of Experts. This showed that for part of the citizens of Tehran the crimes of the system are not so much important and the effect of propagations and excitements can change them into a bandwagon for windsurfing of the helpers of Rohani.
Now Hashemi, using his media tools, bumped the victory of the candidates close to the government collection onto the head of the conservatives by psychological warfare methods. The Chairman of the Expediency Discernment of the System, who was always the winner of the Assembly of Experts in Tehran, this time, imposed this winning to his political rivals. But surely the leader of the Islamic Republic will not like this superiority because his helpers and the media close to the Bayt (leader’s house and office) and the Army, called the list of candidates supported by Hashemi as the British List.
What will Khamenei do? Although Ayatollah Khamenei, in a circumstance that Hashemi has revived the story of “leadership council” since several months ago, is not worried about his position’s
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stability, with the sharp drop of the Front of Stability in the Majles (parliament) and the collapse of the leadership of this Front in the Assembly of Experts he will probably intend to ruin the honeymoon of Rohani and Hashemi.
Khatami, who’s shown he still has influence on many people, as a professional matchmaker who matched many young reformists, this time, will marry his leftist helpers with both Hashemi and Rohani. The leader of the Islamic Republic will definitely face the crisis of credibility and although he has to thank the causers of the presence of the people at the ballot boxes which stabilized the legitimacy of the system as he wished, he will wonder whether it is time to make changes in the Expediency Discernment of the System or not. However, does Hashemi have a trustworthy candidate who won’t change unreliable and to be able to preside the (Expediency) System? Ali Larijani? Mohsen Rezayee? Aziz Jafari? Saeed Jalili? Or even a moderate or reformist? On the other hand, Khamenei knows that he won’t have agents in the Assembly of Experts to stand against Hashemi, unless he reminds the sleepy old men of this Assembly of that their bodyguards have been determined by the Army of Guardians and not Hashemi Rafsanjani. Khamenei is also hopeful that his acceptance by the candidates of the Assembly of Experts will still remain in place. Ahmad Khatami and
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Alamolhoda and some other old men should be more worried about their diseases at the old age rather than defending the Guardianship of The Jurist. However, Khamenei has shown that he is interested in new political games more than before. His recent economic wooing Switzerland was unprecedented.
Where will the Army be? The Army of Guardians doesn’t have a completely homogeneous body to be predicted correctly in its games because not all of the members of the body of the Army think the same way as the generals like Naghdi and Soleimani and Ta’eb do. It’s been a long time that Khamenei hasn’t made widespread organizational changes in the collection of the Army and it is not known whether he intends to do some changes after the recent elections, nevertheless, this story can’t be ignored.
The Army knows that maybe Hashemi is old, but he is not forgetful and remembers the case-making of the Army against his children during the recent years. However, the Army has economic dealers close to Hashemi. Although as their companions said Mohammad Bagher Namazi and Siamak Namazi didn’t have any relations with the political power, the underlings of Ta’eb who have stored a lot of information against the Hashemi family since 1993, releasing photos of Mohammad Bagher Namazi while
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kissing Shah’s hand and his old passport showed that everybody has seen the case of this 79 year old Shirazi old man. The powerful financial department of the Army knows that Hashemi can be an important partner, and Hashemi’s companions have a mafia network in the oil field with a record more than the mafia network of the Army and more integrated. Meanwhile, people like Soltan Pour and the brokers and the wing close to the Army in the past didn’t destroy all the connecting bridges.
By: the Chief Editor of Khodnevis This article was translated by the Editorial board of Center for a Democratic Iran
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