The Beginning of the End of the Clerical Rule in Iran
No. 731
Effect of Sanction in Iran
Nov. 23, 2010
The state run Mardom Salari daily said that gas stations were getting ready to announce new rates.
“The long lines in front of gas stations in the last day of Aban (Persian month equal to November 21) was a sight worth seeing. At least 60 cars were waiting for fuel outside of gas stations on Sunday night… Experts reason that the government stresses on the sudden announcement of prices to prevent swarming of cars for fuel outside of gas stations and to prevent a repeat of the bitter experience of 2007 when gas stations were burned to the ground after it was announced that fuel would be rationed”.
Regime fears attack against gas stations
The Iranian regime has put gas stations on night alert mode in fear that people will attack gas stations after a fuel price raise. The head of the Gas Station Association in Iran has said that gas station managers have been told to be present at night in their place of work because one of these nights, the fuel price raise will be announced.
Iranian officials fear popular protests after subsidy cuts
Iranian officials held a joint session in fear of popular protests after the subsidy cuts. The Iranian state-run TV said, “In this session, the traffic police announced its readiness to monitor the correct implementation of the Smart Subsidy Plan in the areas of traffic and order”.
Crack within the regime
Nov. 23, 2010
Plan to boost Ahmadinejad’s power leads to rifts among regime factions Based on an order by Khamenei, a group made up of the Guardian Council, the government and the parliament have presented a plan to increase the powers of Ahmadinejad as compared to the parliament.
This committee has recently ratified a 14 point plan which would enable Ahmadinejad to give notices to other bodies including the Guardian Council, Expediency Council and Parliament and to question them.
Some of these points were announced on Saturday by the spokesman of the Guardian Council, Kadkhodayi. But Larijani and a number of other MPs said that the Guardian Council Spokesman was announcing issues not ratified by the majority of the parliament.
A MP shed light on the fact that Ahmadinejad wants the power of lawmakers and is not willing to send bills ratified in his cabinet to the parliament and has changed the name of these bills to resolutions. Efforts by Ahamdinejad to increase his powers are a part of Khamenei’s policy to eliminate bothersome institutions in the current critical conditions of the government.
Reports from state run media say this Guardian Council committee wants to solve the differences between the government and the parliament because Ahmadinejad’s cabinet is not willing to implement some of the bills ratified by the parliament.
The head of the parliament, Larijani complained in a letter yesterday to the Guardian Council that even while Khomeini said that the parliament is on top of managing all issues, the executive power has recently brought up arguments regarding the competence of the parliament and has asked for authority of it and has said that the monitoring and supervision capabilities of the parliament interferes in executive issues.
Notably, the main issue the parliament and Ahmadinejad’s cabinet are fighting over is supervision over financial issues. On orders from Khamenei, Ahmadinejad wants to use a large part of the budget and enormous income from cutting subsidies without the disturbances of other factions in the government. Larijani also disclosed that the government had illegal imported about 10 million dollars worth of oil products to the country in the past three years and has arbitrarily swapped 76 million barrels of oil.
The head of the parliament also said that the government has thought otherwise of impeaching Ahmadinejad in light of the fact that according to him ‘the enemies are ready to target the system”.
Deepening rifts in government
One of the heads of the pro-Ahmadinejad fraction of the Iranian regime stressed in parliament that the fundamental faction (Khamenei’s faction) has been divided into various branches and segments.
Abtahi, the head of the fraction called the Islamic Revolution, said in an interview with a state-run media that infiltration groups are the source of these differences and tumbling down of Khamenei’s factions. He asked that infiltration groups be cleaned of infiltrators and disclosed that a committee in the parliament has been tasked with this clean up.
Another pro-Ahmadinejad MP, Ismail Kosari said, “Today a number disagree with Ahmadinejad in any way they can and express disagreement over anything and try to tie up his hands in any way possible”.
Khamenei controlled newspaper attacks RafsanjaniThe Khamenei controlled Kayhan state-run daily wrote on behalf of its readers against Rafsanjani.
“For the Iranian people who thirst for justice it will be very beautiful when they witness the trial of Mehdi Hashemi (Rafsanjani’s son) and that the divine sentence is carried out against this person who was the main igniter of the seditions after the elections”.
RGC official attacks Rafsanjani and minor regime factionMojtaba Zolnour, an official in the Revolutionary Guards Force said, “Sanei left the Imam (Khomeini) in 1985 because he felt that he would become the leader after the Imam but he did not get what he wanted and his stances changed after the leader (Khamenei) came to power and in 1995, (his stances) reached the red line”.
He attacked Rafsanjani and said, “Rafsanjani is sly and good at timing and looked into the formation of the Committee to Protect the Votes in the government and when Ahamdinejad said some things about his children in the presidential debates, Rafsanjani threw the ball in another court and instead of going to the judiciary, he wrote an open letter to the leader. Are Rafsanjani’s children different from other people that Rafsanjani writes a letter to the leader instead of going to the judiciary?”
“If Rafsanjani wants to be the pillar of anti-revolutionaries he has to worry about himself and for those who intend to be the pillars of the anti-revolutionaries, the people will know what to do with them”.
Zolnour cited the minor faction of the Iranian regime and said, “The heads of the seditions are currently in jail and their jailors are considered to be the people. Of course the government has (intentionally) planned not arresting them and has let them die politically. These people are in a dead end and their arrest would only cause them to come out of their dead end”.
Rafsanjani warns about the monopoly of the free universityIn reaction to attempts by Khamenei to take over the property of the free university, Rafsanjani said, “The Free Islamic University was never without problems and some people are trying to take over it”.
“Imam (Khomeini) welcomed the proposition of establishing the free university and did not refuse to help out to this end”, he added.
Suppression
Nov. 23, 2010
Workers of the Ahwaz Pipe Factory have held protests several times in the past years to the point that not holding protest gatherings has turned into an unusual issue for these workers.
Not receiving their wages and being injured with hot lead poured on their bodies in accidents has also turned into a regular phenomenon for them. Kamal Na’ami is one of the workers in this factory. His friends pull up his shirt to show how the hot lead burned his body.
He has large blisters all over his back, hands, stomach and feet but what you do not see in the picture is the fact that not only has he not received his wages for seven months, they have also not paid for his medical expenses and his birth certificate has been confiscated by the hospital he was treated in because he is not able to pay his 400,000 toman (about 400 dollars) hospital bill. He is the father of six children and has very hard financial conditions.
Students Committee in Iran (Supporters of PMOI)
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