\u00a0Ahmadinejad was removed in an internal surgery, marking terminal phase of the Iranian regime’s rule<\/strong><\/p>\nMahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian regime’s former president, was excluded from the list of presidential candidates on direct orders of the mullahs’ supreme leader Ali Khamenei.<\/p>\n
The new surgical operation within the mullahs’ religious fascism clearly signals the terminal phase of the regime’s rule.<\/p>\n
Ahmadinejad’s nomination despite Khamenei’s outright opposition and his disqualification indicate a new escalation in the regime’s infighting, extreme weakness of Khamenei and serious tensions within his own faction.<\/p>\n
With the help of the Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), Khamenei engineered the 2005 and 2009 sham elections to appoint Ahmadinejad as president and impose him on other factions. Khamenei had repeatedly announced that he preferred Ahmadinejad to others, including Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.<\/p>\n
The secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran<\/strong>
April 21, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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