NCRI – As the Iranian regime’s sham presidential election nears and factional infighting within the regime escalates, several regime officials have expressed concern about the regime’s future and have tried to distance themselves from the executions of clerical regime’s opponents in fear of one day being held to account for the regime’s crimes.
Alireza Ali-Ahmadi, former education minister and an ally of Ahmadinejad, emphasized the critical situation of the country and said: “Our attention should not be focused on protecting the country’s borders, events in Iraq and Syria and the support of Saudi Arabia for the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran.” (Fars news agency, 4 May 2013)
Prior to this, Mohammad Reza Khatami, brother of former president Mohammad Khatami, said: “The country is on the verge of collapse. Maybe by tomorrow the disasters will be so great there will be no hope of rebuilding the country and there will be no country left at all.”
Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi, the Auditor General, former interior minister and deputy intelligence minister responsible for the massacre of political prisoners in 1988, denied his involvement in execution of PMOI members, fearing the regime’s unknown future, and placed all responsibility for the massacre on Khomeini.
He said: “I did not have a security position in the Ministry of Intelligence. I entered the ministry upon the insistence of Mohammad Ray-shari (the intelligence minister at the time) and took responsibility for counter-intelligence. I have been in this position, which is a semi-security position, for only two years, therefore I was not involved in the executions.
“This news is part of PMOI propaganda. The PMOI was at war with Khomeini and we were nobody at the time,” he added.
Pour-Mohammadi was a representative of Ministry of Information ministry in the death committee that on the orders of Khomeini massacred 30,000 political prisoners in the summer of 1988.
The designated heir to Khomeini at the time reiterated that the representative of Information Ministry had the most important role in the massacre.
On Monday, May 6th, Alaadin Boroujerdi, head of the National Security and Foreign Policy Commission of the Iranian regime’s parliament, who is close to Ali Khamenei, described the recent statements of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as ‘disrespect for the orders’ of Khamenei.
He added: “Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani’s presence in the election is not in his and country’s interests. The chance must be given to those who are younger and are more capable. Having no differences with the Supreme Leader is the most important feature of a president.”
Secertariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
May 7, 2013