Posted on 07/12/2009 10:51:37 PM PDT by DGHoodini
BEIRUT, Lebanon - In an implicit rebuke to Iran's ruling elite, a conservative presidential candidate warned Sunday that the political and social rifts opened by the disputed June 12 vote and subsequent crackdown could lead to the nation's "disintegration" if they were not resolved soon.
The candidate, Mohsen Rezai, made his warning in a long statement about the election and its bloody aftermath, in which he called for reconciliation and spoke about the danger of "imprisoning" the legacy of the Islamic Revolution in divisive and shortsighted politics. The statement was posted on his Web site.
Although his message was largely nonpartisan, Mr. Rezai hinted that the government response after the election had been unfair, and he urged protesters to continue their work in legal and nonviolent channels.
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Mr. Rezai's statement is the latest sign that opposition to Mr. Ahmadinejad - despite the violent crackdown on street protests and stern warnings by government leaders - has not faltered. On Sunday, Iran's Expediency Council delivered a victory to opposition supporters by upholding a law that would prevent government officials from simultaneously serving on the powerful Guardian Council, which is responsible for approving candidates and certifying election results.
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The Expediency Council's ruling - reported earlier by the semiofficial Fars news agency - was also a clear victory for the former president, Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, now the council's president and a major supporter of Mir Hussein Moussavi, the leading electoral challenger to Mr. Ahmadinejad.
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Political internal disintegration is needed. There are two set of Iranians who live in one country, those who want to join the 21st century, and those who want to live in the 17th, if not 7th century.
However there won’t be a disintegration of the territory.
Rezai is playing on the people’s nationalistic fears... the threat of a territorial disintergation is a powerful one.
7th or 17th century & all those high ranking mullahs and ayatollahs known the meaning of The Bank of England,The Bank of Scotland the numerous Swiss banking institutions- they are no dummies.
When these wankers do abdicate and leave Iran shaving their beards and wearing western style clothing (having ditched their robes in the nearest trashcan-to exit the country they will probably not use an Iranian passport but a fake one, e.g. Iraqi,Syrian, Filipino,Lebanese, etc..
it’s been long known in Iranian society that when the mullahs and ayatollahs leave at least 1/4 of the accumulated wealth of the past 30 years will go with them.
Well... if they leave, at least Iran will be able to restart the economic development of it's ressources.
Iran has an economical potential far greater than any chump change the akhoonds can steal.
the internal under publicized rioting may very well take down this current regime because when the mullahs & ayatollahs leave they will only leave when their purses are filled// there will be never “common ground”
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