Posted on 11/14/2005 3:29:00 PM PST by freedom44
Tehran, Iran, Nov. 13 – Seventy-five percent of the ministers and deputy ministers in the government of hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad come from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), the elite ideological army loyal to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, a source close to a state institution told Iran Focus on Sunday.
At least 11 ministers in Ahmadinejad’s cabinet are former senior officers of the IRGC and its affiliated agencies, the para-military Bassij and the Construction Jihad.
The Minister of Telecommunications, Mohammad Soleymani, was sent to France on a terror assignment with a group of 14 other Revolutionary Guards officers in January 1983. He was arrested briefly while secretly filming the residence of leading Iranian opposition figures in a suburb north of Paris. The ministers of energy, culture, foreign affairs, labour, commerce, agriculture, roads and transport, industries and mines, and urban development are among other former IRGC officers now serving in Ahmadinejad’s cabinet.
Ahmadinejad himself was a senior commander of the IRGC. His official biography noted that he was involved in “extra-territorial operations” by the Revolutionary Guards. The IRGC has carried out many terrorist operations outside Iran against Iranian dissidents and foreign targets, according to Western intelligence sources.
Many of the political appointees in the Ministry of the Interior are also from the Revolutionary Guards. The new Interior Minister, Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi, a Shiite cleric with a notorious past as a top official of the clerical regime’s secret police, has begun sweeping purges in the ministry. Some of the newly-appointed provincial governors are also from the Revolutionary Guards, including Akbar Razzaghi, the new governor of Kermanshah Province. Razzaghi was Ahmadinejad’s fellow IRGC officer when both men were stationed in Ramezan Headquarters in western Iran. Ramezan Headquarters has been a major planning and command centre for IRGC terrorist operations abroad.
"Military takes over"
Yup, and we didn't need to wait for a "source close to a state institution" to tell us.
This is news? To the victor goes the spoils. If you weren't at the US Embassy in 1979, you weren't anywhere!
The writing is on the wall, and in big letters too!
translated:
Mullahs scared of losing power to reform movement continue to cling to the old days. Puts hardliner in charge in bogus election. President than shoves a bunch of his psychotic cronies into every government position no matter how unqualified they are. Whats left of countries economy goes into toilet. Islamic law gets stepped up. Lots of saber rattling to other nations. Mullahs power continues. Russia happily continues to sell them weapons.
Ultimately, this may be a good thing, as it may push the moderate Iranians to join the reformers in revolt, & may finally convince the Eurowennies of the dangers of a nuclear Iran. With any luck, these Iranian fools will declare war on us.
ya kinda knew it would happen eventually.
A source close to the Supreme Leader informed sources that would only speak to Venezuelan officials who spoke to me on condition of anonymity said that Senior Iranian official Mohammad Soleymani, AKA Peeping Mohammad... prefers to go by his IRGC nickname:
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