…days after the election, the US Embassy in London had another high-profile Iranian source claiming Mojtaba Khamenei’s responsibility for the Ahmadinejad victory. Writer and broadcaster Alireza Nourizadeh told the American officials, “All his interlocutors in the Moussavi camp believe the entire affair represents a power grab by Mojtaba Khamenei, with tactical and logistical planning for the move going back six months or more. Nourizadeh said he had no direct proof himself of Mojtaba’s role but that the Moussavi camp believes Mojtaba’s principal allies to be IRGC commander Jafari and Basij commander Hossain Taeb.”
