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NCRI –\u00a0The Iranian regime\u2019s former president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, intensively attacked the regime\u2019s Judiciary in a factional feud and said: \u201cIf we were to have dictatorship of judiciary, we would not have made revolution.\u201d<\/p>\n
Confessing to the \u201clack of independence\u201d of the Judiciary in an interview with state-run Dowlat Bahar (Spring Government) website, Ahmadinejad said: \u201cOne of the great violations the judiciary has committed is placing prisons under the control of the security agencies.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ahmadinejad accused the judiciary of corruption, tyranny and dictatorship and called the charges against his deputy Hamid Baghaei \u201cfabricated\u201d and added: \u201cIf the words of Hamid Baghaei about the head of this body are a crime, I say these words before anyone else.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIf it is a crime, I also say to people that swear to God my children are not spies, my brothers are not mediator or renter, they are not land speculator, they are not the exclusive importer of medicine, I myself did not seize or speculate the lands around Qom to set up a dairy,\u201d he said and added, \u201cI am not rolling in Money and I do not have any foreign citizenship, my children and my brothers do not have either.\u201d<\/p>\n
At the time of his presidency, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also released a film in Parliament on a conversation between Fazel Larijani (brother of Sadegh Larijani, the head of judiciary) and Saeed Mortazavi, head of the Social Security Organization at the time, during interpellation of the Minister of Labor. In the video clip, Fazel Larijani apparently asks Saeed Mortazavi to sell him one of the social security companies.<\/p>\n
There were also reports earlier on the arrest of Sadegh Larijani\u2019s daughter for \u201cspying\u201d for foreigners.<\/p>\n
\u201cRight now, part of the prisons is controlled by the IRGC’s intelligence, another part is controlled by Intelligence Ministry, another part is under the supervision of Judiciary, and another part is under the supervision of the prison authorities,\u201d Ahmadinejad added.<\/p>\n
He stated that while the bailiffs (law enforcement and security institutions) should be under the jurisdiction of the judiciary, the situation now is such that the judiciary arrests the accused and deliver them to the bailiff.<\/p>\n
Referring to Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejehi, the spokesman for the judiciary who said that Hamid Baghaei is in the suite [in the prison], Ahmadinejad said: \u201cGod willing, I hope the judiciary officials take their part and live in these suites without any retinue and… to understand what’s going on.\u201d<\/p>\n
He also said in the interview that the judiciary is justifying its actions by claiming the fight against corruption.<\/p>\n
Addressing the judiciary, he added: \u201cBecause you are in power does not mean whatever you do is right?\u201d<\/p>\n
Ahmadinejad made these remarks now while he remained silent during his presidency about the actions of the Judiciary and the crackdowns of 2009.<\/p>\n
Saeed Mortazavi, who was the main accused of Zahra Kazemi’s case and Kahrizak detention center, was appointed as the head of Social Security Organization upon insistence of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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