Iran's senior clerics condemn divisive comments
Radio Zamaneh
06-Oct-2009 (2 comments)

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, chairman of the Expediency Council and Hassan Rohani, head of the Council’s strategic research echoed each other’s concerns about the deepening divisions in Iran.

Hashemi Rafsanjani, who had aligned himself with reformists giving rise to the ire of the conservatives, in a meeting with principalist clergy of the parliament, spoke out against spreading of rumours and slandering, calling them “the scourge of national unity.”

ILNA reports that the Chairman of the Expediency Council has called for finding the real roots and causes of the differences in the society and confronting their divisive objectives.

>>>
FG

Revolutionary Guards targeted

by FG on Tue Oct 06, 2009 12:27 PM PDT

Regarding the following statement, some folks intially speculated that Rafsanjani, acting on self-interest and to protect his family, was selling out the reform movement and took the latter as his target.  To read the article is to see that the reverse is true.

QUOTE: "the Chairman of the Expediency Council has called for finding the real roots and causes of the differences in the society and confronting their divisive objectives."



Balatarin
Share/Save/Bookmark

 
Ostaad

There are indications that...

by Ostaad on Tue Oct 06, 2009 09:20 PM PDT

all is not well in the Sepah either. I am not privy to the goings on withing the Sepah but I have strong feeling that some high level on duty and former Sepah commanders are not in sync with what those Sepah commanders who are carrying water for the Khamenie-Ahamdinejad gang are doing. The current fissures run all the way from the "civilian" sections to the military fat cats, and I'm curious to see what happens next and where the eruptions are going to occur.


  •