Three pro-Ahmadinejad websites warned that his opponents are going to implement a sort of "final solution" next month. Akhbar-e Mahramaneh wrote that the "main confrontation" between the supporters and foes of Ahmadinejad is going to begin soon, and that "the future is vague, but historical."
On Friday, January 20, Super Enheraafi [super deviant], another pro-Ahmadinejad website, warned that "special events" would occur in February. It claimed that the president's opponents may try to bring him down either by a Majles impeachment or assassination.
As a result of a quasi-coup, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has finally succeeded in taking control of the Islamic Azad University, Iran's largest university system, one of the largest of its kind in the world. It happened at the end of a meeting of the board of trustees of the university, which Rafsanjani leads. After the former president and his supporters left the meeting, the representatives of Ahmadinejad's camp on the board announced that Farhad Daneshjoo, a brother of the Minister of Science, Research and Technology, which overseas the universities, has been elected by the board as the new president of the university, replacing Rafsanjani's ally Dr. Abdollah Jasbi, who has led the university since its inception in 1982. Rafsanjani said that he will not sign the order for Daneshjoo's appointment, but Daneshjoo has said that he will not back down because the Supreme Council for Cultural Revolution, an extra-constitutional body that control cultural affairs, has confirmed him as the new president of the university.
Three pro-Ahmadinejad websites warned that his opponents are going to implement a sort of "final solution" next month. Akhbar-e Mahramaneh wrote that the "main confrontation" between the supporters and foes of Ahmadinejad is going to begin soon, and that "the future is vague, but historical."
This predicament leads a professor of contemporary Iranian history to observe that Khamenei now faces "the fate of all dictators. He is currently the loneliest person in the country."
He considers the argument that Khamenei's power rests on support from the Revolutionary Guards no more than a "propagandistic claim."
"If he doesn't change his ways soon," says the professor, "other players in Iran's political arena will reach the conclusion that getting rid of of Mr. Khamenei is the best option both for getting out of the crisis and maintaining the Islamic Republic."
Abdoljabbar Karami, a Majles deputy and critic of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, said that the president will be questioned by the Majles on March 5. The questions will be sent to Ahmadinejad, and he will have one month to respond.
The date was chosen for its symbolic significance: March 5, 1981, the anniversary of the death of Dr. Mohammad Mosaddegh, was also the day in which Abolhassan Bani Sadr, the Islamic Republic's first president, gave a speech at the University of Tehran in which he accused his political adversaries of torturing people in jail. That was the beginning of the public confrontation between Bani Sadr and the clerics opposed to him that led to his impeachment by the Majles two months later. Ahmadinejad's critics have repeatedly referred to him as the "second Bani Sadr."
As the Majles elections approach, the confrontation between the two camps is heating up.
As noted here last March, Brigadier General Salar Abnoush, commander of the Revolutionary Guards' Saheb ol-Amr division in Qazvin, 100 miles west of Tehran, said that if the results of the elections are not compatible "with our values," there will be bloodshed.
The reason, he said, is that "there will be infighting in the Majles that will allow the sedition [the Green Movement] to rise up again." We may be approaching that point.
Maybe this is how the West will "earn their return" to Iran
An alliance of clerics, elite Revolutionary Guards and influential bazaar merchants has made sure many pro-Ahmadinejad politicians cannot register to run for the assembly.
Politicians say the Guardian Council, made up of six clerics and six jurists who vet candidates, has barred many Ahmadinejad supporters, forcing him to pick younger political unknowns.
“They had no public link to Ahmadinejad’s camp, but the Council was wise enough to spot them and around 45 percent of his supporters have been disqualified,” said one official involved in the multi-layered vetting process.
A list of qualified candidates will be announced on Feb. 21.
