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Jul202009
Iran: Pressure on the Supreme Leader?
Monday, July 20, 2009 at 10:11
Iran: The Supreme Leader Responds
The Latest from Iran (20 July): How Far Can This Go?
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As regular readers of EA know, we're keeping a watch out for signs that would take protest beyond demonstrations beyond the handling of the results to a challenge of the Supreme Leader.
More food for thought on Sunday. The website Mowjcamp, associated with Mir Hossein Mousavi, has claimed that "a few high-ranking prominent clergymen of Qom are applying pressure upon Khamenei in order to induce him to accept the protests of the public and clergy and abandon his support of Ahmadinejad". This site also claims that Ayatollah Javadi Amoli and Ayatollah Amini intend to have a meeting with Khamenei in the near future.
The Ayatollahs, members of a council of clergy convened by Hashemi Rafsanjani to solve the election crisis, will be acting officially to convey the opinions of the council to Khamenei. Mowjcamp also asserts, that other high-ranking clergymen have met with the Supreme Leader and have criticized him severely. For example Ayatollah Kharazi has proclaimed, "The Supreme Leader must pay the blood price of the dead."
Citing an "authentic source", the website also refers to the story, which we noted yesterday, of an acrimonious debate between Rafsanjani and Khamenei in which Rafsanjani refused the Supreme Leader's request that he participate in Ahmadinejad's inauguration.
The Latest from Iran (20 July): How Far Can This Go?
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As regular readers of EA know, we're keeping a watch out for signs that would take protest beyond demonstrations beyond the handling of the results to a challenge of the Supreme Leader.More food for thought on Sunday. The website Mowjcamp, associated with Mir Hossein Mousavi, has claimed that "a few high-ranking prominent clergymen of Qom are applying pressure upon Khamenei in order to induce him to accept the protests of the public and clergy and abandon his support of Ahmadinejad". This site also claims that Ayatollah Javadi Amoli and Ayatollah Amini intend to have a meeting with Khamenei in the near future.
The Ayatollahs, members of a council of clergy convened by Hashemi Rafsanjani to solve the election crisis, will be acting officially to convey the opinions of the council to Khamenei. Mowjcamp also asserts, that other high-ranking clergymen have met with the Supreme Leader and have criticized him severely. For example Ayatollah Kharazi has proclaimed, "The Supreme Leader must pay the blood price of the dead."
Citing an "authentic source", the website also refers to the story, which we noted yesterday, of an acrimonious debate between Rafsanjani and Khamenei in which Rafsanjani refused the Supreme Leader's request that he participate in Ahmadinejad's inauguration.