Iran's Intelligence Minister warns against opposition
Source: Radio Zamaneh
Iranian Intelligence Minister Heydar Moslehi says a group of the president's allies has joined with the people who protested the results of the 2009 election, but his ministry will not allow them to "derail" the coming elections.
Heydar Moslehi
"The sedition movement and the deviant current are seriously
in conflict with the regime and the leadership for their own specific reasons,"
Moslehi told the meeting of the Assembly of Experts today.
The Islamic Republic establishment refers to the 2009 election protesters as
seditionists and it calls the allies of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, headed by his chief
of staff Esfanidar Rahim Mashai, a "deviant current" against the regime.
Moslehi maintained that both groups are trying to rid the system of velayat
faqih [the leadership of expert clergy].
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei warned that Iran's enemies may try to
exploit election irregularities, and he urged the people and the government to
safeguard the process.
Moslehi listed talking points that enemies use to attack the Islamic Republic
system: "an emphasis on nationalism and semi-modernism; the insistence that
Islam and the clergy are not efficient."
The deputy head of the Iranian Parliament, Mohammadreza Bahonar, had previously
noted that the "deviant current" does not support the clergy's current role.
Iranian parliamentary elections are to be held in March, and the establishment
is wary of possible unrest, in view of the widespread protests that threw the
country into months of upheaval over allegations of vote fraud.
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