Following weeks of silence, Hashemi Rafsanjani who heads the Expediency Council and the Experts Assembly on Leadership finally spoke his mind publicly about what he thinks of the state of the country, and just like the Friday prayer sermon on July 17, 2009, he criticized the existing conditions in the country. And this criticism came with support from non other than the Speaker of Majlis, Ali Larijani and called him “one of the pillars” of the regime and “a part of the history of the revolution.”
