{"id":254315,"date":"2022-01-15T06:05:23","date_gmt":"2022-01-15T11:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=254315"},"modified":"2023-02-03T10:59:48","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T09:59:48","slug":"khameneis-attempt-for-unity-end-up-with-a-divided-hardline-faction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/khameneis-attempt-for-unity-end-up-with-a-divided-hardline-faction\/","title":{"rendered":"IRAN: Khamenei\u2019s Attempt for Unity End up With a Divided Hardline Faction"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In March 2020, during the regime’s sham parliamentary elections, the Guardian Council began to sideline the so-called “reformist” faction in accordance with Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s orders. Khamenei wanted a parliament full of undisputed loyalists to pave the way for a major purge in the presidential election in 2021, during which he sought to install a “young Hezbollahi government.”<\/p>\n

In June 2021, the Guardian Council disqualified even Khamenei\u2019s senior advisor, Ali Larijani<\/a>, and then-vice president Eshagh Jahangiri<\/a>, to ensure that then-Judiciary Chief Ebrahim Raisi could secure the presidency.<\/p>\n

The explosive state of society had sounded all the alarm bells for Khamenei. He knew that the slightest rift at the top could hinder a swift crackdown on the looming uprisings. Warnings were given in advance that “officials should avoid destroying unity and unanimity” because the result would be the “fragmentation” of the entire system in the face of a population yearning for change.<\/p>\n

It has now been five months since Raisi and his handpicked administration were installed to symbolize the “unification” of the entire establishment. But mounting crises are exposing widening cracks. Members of parliament attack Raisi’s cabinet every time a minister is summoned, warning the president about the consequences of his empty promises, increasing poverty, and the growing threat of a social explosion. The intensity of the infighting has reached a boiling point, forcing Khamenei to call the parties out in his speech<\/a> in Qom on January 9. He warned the parliament and the government against “division” and “confrontation”.<\/p>\n

It is clear that the intensity of the conflict is so serious that Khamenei’s behind-the-scenes efforts to contain it have gone unanswered, and now the helpless Supreme Leader has been forced to accept the scandal and the extensive associated losses, while publicly announcing the existence of a variety of “fronts” within his own faction.<\/p>\n

One manifestation of this “division” and “confrontation” has emerged in connection with the Vienna talks. Ten months have passed since talks began but there is no realistic prospect of reviving the nuclear deal known as the JCPOA or lifting the sanctions.<\/p>\n

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