Iran’s Ex-President Criticized for Comments About Election
NY Times
19-Jul-2009 (3 comments)

BEIRUT, Lebanon — Several prominent Iranian conservative figures and hard-line newspapers offered sharp criticism on Saturday of former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who delivered a speech on Friday that assailed the government’s handling of last month’s presidential election.

Ayatollah Muhammad Yazdi, a conservative member of Iran’s Guardian Council and the former head of the judiciary, lashed out at Mr. Rafsanjani, saying the former president did not have the right to call for the release of arrested protesters. He also said Mr. Rafsanjani had exaggerated the role of democracy in Islamic government and thereby diminished the importance of divine sanction.

“Legitimacy and acceptance are different in Islamic government,” Ayatollah Yazdi told the semi-official Fars news agency. “Votes alone do not create legitimacy.”

In his Friday speech at Tehran University, which drew vast crowds and set off the largest opposition street demonstrations in weeks, Mr. Rafsanjani spoke at length about the central importance of democracy in Iran’s government and in Islam itself, and criticized the government’s conduct during the election and the ensuing protests.

Many in Iran believe that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s landslide victory was achieved through fraud. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, blessed the results shortly after the June 12 vote, and sternly warned the protesters to move on.

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Capt ayhab,   Don’t

by Farhad Kashani on Sun Jul 19, 2009 09:28 PM PDT

Capt ayhab,

 

Don’t start something you can’t handle, this is the second time you’re using insults. Just because there is no audit now on this site, doesn’t mean no-character brainwashed laat-wannabees like you can come and spread insults. We all can do that. Don’t let me start. You will cry painfully if I do bacheh naneh tokhm e sag khak bar sar.

 

Furthermore, you have all the reasons in the world to be mad. Don’t think fort a second that we forgot your pro Fascist IRI positions before the recent uprising. Don’t tell me you had a conscious awakening because in order to have one, you have to have a conscious to begin with. So now that your regime is exposed and de-legitimized forever, you’re mad and shouting profanities. So, again, it’s understandable, just please, know who you’re dealing with.

  Finally, we all knew that you were stupid, just really not to this level. As you can see, the source is NEW YORK TIMES, your favorite Leftist paper.


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chat811

Iranian public

by chat811 on Sun Jul 19, 2009 02:03 PM PDT

Some people in Iran are Tarsoo.. Spineless... they wait around and take pictures while the civilians (Bassijies????) are grabbing women, forcing them into cars and hauling them away... It pisses me off reading or hearing these events while average peole just walk around and act sheepish.....

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
Thomas Jefferson


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Farhad Kashani

Attention all Leftist so

by Farhad Kashani on Sun Jul 19, 2009 01:30 PM PDT

Attention all Leftist so called “scholars” who used to tell us IRI has set up a “different form” of democracy: This is how IRI really feels!  


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