NCRI – As Iranian regime sham elections approaches, infighting within the regime is mounting and the regime’s leaders are expressing ever more panic at the possible downfall of their dictatorship.
Ahmed Khatami, a member of Assembly of Experts’ presidential board, said: “We need to watch for sedition. Breaking the system apart can not boil down to a difference in tastes. If they get the opportunity and gain power, they will once again begin discussing their plans to break the system apart.
“Those involved in the 2009 sedition were in conflict with the Velayat-e faqih . During the 2009 sedition, they were looking to break this central pillar. Since 2009, the Supreme Leader has spoken about sedition hundreds of times.
“Therefore, we should stand behind the Leader and we should not allow this central pillar to become unstable.” (Fars news agency affiliated with IRGC, 29 March 2013).
Kayhan daily, widely described as Ali Khamenei’s mouthpiece, reiterated that when Khamenei spoke about ‘the presence of all political tastes and tendencies in the election’, he meant those who are ‘within the Islamic Republic’, and this obviously excludes ‘the two seditious and deviant groups’.
Mohammad Taghi Mesbah Yazdi, a member of Assembly of Experts, accused elements of rival factions as possessing ‘satanic beliefs’ and stated that any opposition to Khamenei is ‘polytheism’ (state-run media, April 7).
Mohammad Reza Toyserkani, Khamenei’s representative in the paramilitary Basij Force, emphasized the need for the active interference the Basij in the regime’s sham election, calling any neutrality tantamount to treason (ISNA news agency, 6 April 2013).
Ahmad Khatami described Ahmadinejad’s faction as a red line for the regime’s elections (Fars news agency affiliated with IRGC, 29 March 2013).
Mehdi Taeb, leader of the club-wielders’ organ called the Ammar Garrison, called Ahmadinejad ‘a foot-soldier of the deviant faction’ and ‘dirt and dust’ (ILNA state-run news agency, 26 March).
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
10 April 2013