Posted on 07/21/2009 7:43:12 PM PDT by nuconvert
The grandson of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, father of Iran's Islamic revolution, is reported to have left the country to avoid attending Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's presidential inauguration.
Hassan Khomeini, a supporter of the defeated reformist candidate, Mir Hossein Mousavi, has travelled to an unnamed "neighbouring country" to escape official pressure to be present at next month's swearing-in ceremony, according to the pro-reformist news website, Salaamnews.
His absence would be a blow to the authorities' hopes of using the hallowed Khomeini family name to confer legitimacy on the event in the face of allegations that Ahmadinejad owes his re-election to fraud.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
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I anticipate that he is in Najaf, Iraq.
The evolution of the theory of the Wilayat Al Faqih is described in the article below. The other Mullahs are not pleased.
http://aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=2&id=17447
I was wondering when he would do something. Probably a good idea for him to get out of Khamenei’s line of fire right now.
“Probably a good idea for him to get out of Khamenei’s line of fire right now.”
and into the line of fire of a few IRGC? Lol
“The evolution of the theory of the Wilayat Al Faqih is described in the article below. The other Mullahs are not pleased.”
No, I’m sure they’re not. But it’s easy for them to dismiss ....he’s wrong, of course. or lying.
This isn’t going to make the regime happy either ....
“There is another example of this; Jalaluddin Rumi famously wrote “The Sufi is the son of time.” This is a view that is not only present in Islamic mysticism, but also in other schools of thought and literature.”
As far as the regime is concerned, the only good Sufi is a dead Sufi.
Mr Mohajerani isn’t making many friends in the regime with this piece.
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