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NCRI – The remarks of the mullahs\u2019 Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in his meeting on Thursday, September 8, with members of the mullahs\u2019 Assembly of Experts was a display of the Velayat-e Faqih\u2019s (supreme clerical rule) loss of clout and the regime\u2019s fragile state on one hand and the mullahs\u2019 fear of uprisings in the region as well as Khamenei\u2019s futile attempt to take advantage of them. <\/p>\n
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Khamenei who has been discredited amongst all clerics, including mullahs within the ruling clique, yet calls himself the \u201cregime\u2019s main kingpin\u201d said: \u201cAbsolute clerical rule is a flexible concept of rule \u2026 which can rectify or amend a path wherever necessary.\u201d He however warned: \u201cOne must be wary of a dangerous misunderstanding of this concept by mixing flexibility with deviation and short-comings in the face of foreign pressures.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cJust as the Imam [Khomeini] did not submit to pressures and instead persisted in the case of Salman Rushdie, the principles and foundations as well as the identity and goals of the regime must be safeguarded. We must know that if we let go of the principles, the very identity of our regime will be lost and we will never reach those goals\u2026 We must repent if we have shortcomings in our principles\u2026 They protest to us and pressure us over the issue of Qisas (punishment of retaliation)\u2026 the pressure us over the issue of Diyeh (blood money), they pressure us on veracious issues to force us to submit. It is wrong to do so; that is deviation; one must not succumb to such deviations.\u201d<\/p>\n
In an unprecedented acknowledgement, Khamenei described the concept of Velayat-e Faqih is Khomeini\u2019s creation in the history of Islam, adding: \u201cThe establishment of a regime on the basis of Islamic jurisprudence was unprecedented prior to the Imam [Khomeini], and that grand individual was the first person who introduced and created both in concept and in practice a political regime on the basis of religious democracy and rule of the supreme jurisprudent.\u201d He simultaneously called for the expansion of this reactionary concept to Arab countries.<\/p>\n
While touching on regional developments, the mullahs\u2019 bankrupt Supreme Leader continued his deafening silence over the heroic uprising of the people of Syria, which he fears, and made no reference to his strategic ally.<\/p>\n
Referring to the downfall of the regimes in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, and Yemen, he said: \u201cThis is a great danger that regimes come to power in these countries based on Western models in the name of democracy\u201d and \u201cThese nations\u2019 religious elite must take over control of these nations\u2019 affairs.\u201d He laid bare his ominous goal of exporting fundamentalism to these countries and said: \u201cHere the [mullahs\u2019 regime] can help these countries by introducing religious rule of people. Religious rule of people, which is our grand Imam\u2019s innovation, can be a model for all these countries. It is both rule of people and based on religious teachings. This is our responsibility and must be carried so that the enemies of these nations are not able to use the void that has been created. This emptiness must be filled with Islam.\u201d He was however forced to admit: \u201cSunni jurisprudence – whether the Shafi\u2019i jurisprudence in Egypt or the Malikis in certain countries in that region, or the Hanaffis in certain countries\u201d do not agree with the concept of Velayat-e Faqih.<\/p>\n
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
September 9, 2011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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