NCRI – Due to a brawl between different factions in the regime’s parliament over this year’s budget’ additional line items, the parliament was shut down, State-run Mehr news agency reported on May 8.
The news outlet of the Ministry of Intelligence wrote: After the first line item that was related to the Simineh River, was eliminated by the members votes, Mullah Rahmani, yelling and screaming, stood in front of Larijani (head of regime’s parliament) and screamed: “What you just did is treason; I will have blood shed over this.”
Mehr news agency added: When Rahmani, that had rushed towards the parliament’s leadership podium, tried to walk up the stairs to reach them, other members tried to prevent him from doing so, but Rahmani harshly pushed them away and finally reached the leadership stand. At that point, more members went towards him and tried to take him away from the leadership stand… Once again Rahmani screamed at Larijani: This is treachery towards the people. Finally, other members removed Rahmani from the floor of the parliament. The Sunday session’s atmosphere was so chaotic that head of the parliament adjourned the session.
According to this report, Larijani postponed the session to that afternoon, however, it was announced by the parliament’s public announcement system that the afternoon session was canceled too.
Ghafouri-Fard, member of regime’s parliament said: Today’s chaos at the parliament and… its international coverage in the foreign media…with such mistakes, had a significant expense for the regime.