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This fact sheet aims to provide details of the factional feuding at the heart of Friday’s elections for the Iranian regime’s Parliament\u00a0and Assembly of Experts.<\/p>\n
Comparison of lists of candidates for various political factions<\/strong><\/p>\n The following individuals are among the candidates for the Assembly of Experts on the candidate-list generated by the faction affiliated with the Iranian regime\u2019s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei:<\/p>\n \u2022 Ahmad Janati<\/strong> (Secretary of the Guardians Council) The above have been among the most important figures of suppression and corruption in Iran during 37 years of clerical rule.<\/p>\n Some of the most well-known candidates on the list generated by the faction affiliated with former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and current President Hassan Rouhani are:<\/p>\n \u2022 Qorbanali Dori-Najafabadi<\/strong>: Minister of Intelligence and Security in Mohammad Khatami\u2019s cabinet during a period in the late 1990s when many thinkers and authors were killed as a result of fatwas he had issued. After this was revealed, he was forced to resign. An eyewitness account on the regime\u2019s stage-managing of Election Day<\/strong><\/p>\n Farzad Madadzadeh, a former political prisoner who was incarcerated from 2009-2014, personally monitored elections in Tehran and some small cities on several occasions. He reports: Unprecedented heightening of crisis at the regime\u2019s highest levels<\/strong><\/p>\n Fars News Agency, February 21, 2016- Ahmad Khatami, Tehran\u2019s Friday Prayer Leader:<\/strong> State-run Ilna News Agency, February 23, 2016, Rasoul Montajebnia, vice head of Etemad Meli (National Trust) Party:<\/strong> February 16, 2016, Mohammad Hossein Safar Harandi, former Minister of Islamic Guidance:<\/strong> State-run Fars News Agency, February 24, 2016, Ahmad Janati,\u00a0Secretary of the Guardian Council:<\/strong> The official state news agency IRNA, February 23, 2016:<\/strong> IRNA, Mohammad Vakili, candidate of the coalition of \u201creformers\u201d:<\/strong> Deutsche Welle, February 22, 2016:<\/strong> IRGC Brigadier General Hossein-Ali Yousefzadeh, Inspector General of the Bassij:<\/strong> Fars News Agency, February 20, 2016: Major General Hassan Firouzabadi, Chief of Staff of the Iranian regime\u2019s Armed Forces:<\/strong> This fact sheet aims to provide details of the factional feuding at the heart of Friday’s elections for the Iranian regime’s Parliament and Assembly of Experts. Comparison of lists of candidates […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[175],"class_list":{"0":"post-19936","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-exclusive-report","8":"tag-updated"},"yoast_head":"\n
\u2022 Mohammad Yazdi<\/strong> (former head of the Judiciary)
\u2022 Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah Yazdi<\/strong> (ideologue of the regime\u2019s most fascist factions)
\u2022 Mahmoud Shahroudi<\/strong> (former head of the Judiciary)<\/p>\n
\u2022 Mohamamd Mohammadi Reyshahri<\/strong>: The first Minister of Intelligence and Security in Rafsanjani\u2019s cabinet. He executed many dissident clerics. He placed Ayatollah Montazeri, Khomeini\u2019s heir- apparent who was sacked after protesting to massacre of political prisoners, under house arrest, where he remained until his death. Reyshahri has also been implicated in assassinations outside of Iran.
\u2022 Mahmoud Alavi<\/strong>:\u00a0the current Minister of Intelligence and Security.
\u2022 Ali Falahian<\/strong>: The Minister of Intelligence and Security in Rafsanjani\u2019s cabinet. He was in charge of most of the assassinations of Iranian dissidents abroad in the 1990s and there are international arrest warrants for him issued by Germany, Switzerland, and Argentina.
\u2022 Ali Razini<\/strong>: A religious judge in the 1980s who executed hundreds of dissidents including activists of the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI or MEK). He was the religious judge personally involved in stoning three individuals to death. The revelation of the footage of that stoning shocked the world.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe officials in Tehran identify major polling stations and ordered their agents to pour into each station at a specific time of the day. This contributed to the regime\u2019s propaganda not only through statistics but also through images and video.\u201d
\u201cState TV airs images of inflated crowds at those polling places and conducts interviews with people who claim to be waiting in line for hours to cast their ballots. But throughout the day official TV reports from Tehran only cover a few polling stations \u2013 the same one to which foreign journalists were directed by the Ministry of Guidance. In Tehran, Hoseynieh Ershad, Imam Hassan Mosque and a handful of other voting stations are designated for this purpose. In other major cities the same pattern of state TV broadcasts exists, but in a more limited number of stations.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou will be exposed after the elections and we will tell the people about your evil conduct behind the scenes. We will say how you obeyed the U.S. and the U.K\u2026 You think we will let you go? Lets\u2019 fight to the end. You are exposed. And upon God\u2019s grace, regardless of whether I would get the votes or would not get them, you will be further exposed\u2026 Our people know full well. The issue is not Janati, Mesbah, and Khatami. The issue is the leader and leadership. They want to destroy the leadership. But they will take this wish to their graves\u2026 Some of the seditionists and those today who have lost love with the West, they will hoist gallows in any city where they gain power. \u201c<\/p>\n
\u201dA few months ago we were informed that in secret meetings the hardliners decided to bus in more than 1 million residents of rural areas to Tehran and allocated a budget for this. This was planned so these residents of rural areas would vote in Tehran and as such inflate the vote for the hardliners.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOne day all of a sudden we opened our eyes and we saw that an individual is functioning in the Exigency Council who has nothing in common with the regime. He was able to get to that position because he was a relative of someone important. He wrote a letter to one of the leaders of the 2009 sedition and described the Imam [Khomeini] as a murderer and killer and complained to the fellow involved in sedition. How do you respect that murder and killer? We said to Mr. Hashemi [Rafsanjani] if this is a lie, deny it. If it is true, this is miserable and very telling.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIn reviewing the qualifications, if we found the least connection to sedition [2009 uprising] we rejected the candidate. We take pride in this. \u201c<\/p>\n
\u201cHashemi called driving the candidates into elements of Daesh (ISIS) and agents of penetration very deplorable\u2026 Rafsanjani described dogmatic views that are backed by bayonet as inappropriate\u2026 and said that some by claiming to be pious and revolutionary are trying to deceive the public.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOur domestic conduct is similar to a mine that is on the verge of explosion. Mines of unemployment, addiction, depression, lack of trust has among people who have been pushed aside due to mismanagement, all riddle Iranian society. There is a serious concern that any moment we might hit one of these mines.\u201d<\/p>\n
In a letter to Rafsanjani, Ahmad Tavakol warned about obvious intervention of the UK in support of an election list and wrote: \u201cThe path that they intend to drag you and us into has no better fate than the 2009 uprising. You block this path\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe individuals who have been supported by the world arrogance [the West], should recant and exonerate themselves as soon as possible. Otherwise they should be put on trial as a guilty person.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe individuals who have been supported by the U.S. and U.K., should separate themselves from the U.S. and UK. Otherwise they are guilty and are accomplices in the insult that has made to Iran. .. This is like military intervention. If the U.S and the UK cross the borders, the Foreign Ministry will protest and will seek explanation and will repel them. If that does not work, the military should repel them. This is also an aggression.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"