Source:
Radio Zamaneh
Iran's Assembly of Experts, the only executive
body able to discharge the Supreme Leader, issued its final statement after
bringing the meeting to a speedy end today in the absence of Ayatollah
Rafsanjani, the chair of the assembly. Having aligned himself with opposition
concerns about fraud in the elections, Ayatollah Rafsanjani was expected to
reflect some of those concerns in the assembly. Some pro-reform clerics had even
demanded a review of the Leader's suitability in view of his role in the
post-election violent crackdown on protesters.
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Assembly of Experts |
Yesterday in his opening speech at the assembly,
Ayatollah Rafsanjani chose a path of reconciliation with Ayatollah Khamenei and
today, hardliner Ahmad Khatami, member of the assembly's executive committee,
claimed that despite his absence, the chair of the assembly was in agreement
with every line of the assembly's final statement.
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Rafsanjani was present at the opening session |
Appreciative of the leader's "wise policies" for
extinguishing the "seditious flames" in the recent events, the expert clerics
write that they have renewed their full allegiance to the Supreme Leader,
Ayatollah Khamenei, for he is the most suitable person for leadership. The
leader is even congratulated for not giving in to allegations of fraud in the
June presidential elections.
The judiciary's allegations that foreign powers had conspired to overthrow the
Islamic system of Iran in the recent events is also echoed in the statement of
the Assembly of Experts.
In finality, while congratulating Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on his second term of
presidency, the assembly counsels him to heed the "critiques of concerned Shiite
clerics" in all his efforts.
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