An Important Election is Scheduled for April in Iran!
February 14, 2006
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A very important election is scheduled for April in Iran.
This election could well decide the future path Iran will take in its Middle East roll. The real decision maker in Iran, since the overthrow of the Shah in the violent overthrow of a corrupt regime, has been the “Supreme Guide,” a powerful position held by an Islamic “Custodian Theologian,” the great religious leader with almost absolute authority to overrule any decision made by the President.
If a super hardliner is elected to the post, the current President of Iran, Ahmadinejad, would have a free hand to continue on his radical path toward destruction. If both Ahmadinejah and the Supreme Guide held the same fanatical belief that the 12th Imam Mahdi’s coming is on the doorsteps,
then their union would cause them to take action to prepare the way for his coming.
The paragraphs which follow consist of usurps extracted from an article by Amir Taheri in the Jerusalem Post.
The “Eye of the Storm” is now focused on the leadership of Iran.
Begin Usurps from Jerusalem Post Extract
Eye of the Storm: Choosing the ‘Supreme Leader’
By Amir Taheri, THE JERUSALEM POST
February 13, 2006
While the world is focused on the clock of Iran’s nuclear program, the other clock, that of the nation’s domestic politics, is all but ignored by most commentators.
Both clocks have their alarms set. That of the nuclear clock is expected to ring within the next three to five years, unless something is done to interrupt the military aspects of the program. The alarm of the domestic politics clock, however, could be set off within the next few months as the power struggle in Teheran enters a new and more intense phase.
The event to watch is the forthcoming election of a new Assembly of Experts, a body of mullahs whose task is to elect the “Custodian-Theologian” – more commonly known as the “Supreme Guide,” who has virtually unlimited powers under the Khomeinist constitution.
The election, to be completed in April, will not be open to all citizens. As always in the case of elections in the Islamic Republic all candidates must be approved by the authorities. And once the results are in, the Council of the Guardians of the Constitution, a body of 12 mullahs, can cancel part or all of them. In other words these elections resemble primaries held inside the same political party.
During the presidential election Khamenei was astute enough to adjust his tactics. Having backed Qalibaf in the first round he switched to Ahmadinejad in the second. Ahmadinejad, however, feels he owes nothing to Khamenei. By putting the focus on the “Hidden Imam” Mahdi as the sole source of power in the Islamic Republic, Ahmadinejad has tried to marginalize the “Supreme Guide.” In many of his speeches he puts the Mahdi ahead of all prophets and claims that he has “a private personal channel” to the “Hidden Imam.”
THE NEW ruling elite, symbolized by Ahmadinejad, however, appears determined to maintain the post of “Supreme Guide” while divesting it of some of its political and administrative powers. In that context the new elite’s ideological guru, Ayatollah Muhammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi could emerge as the leading candidate for “Supreme Guide”, if and when Khamenei is forced out.
The contrast between the two men could not be greater. While Khamenei was unable to complete his theological studies before the revolution because of frequent spells in the Shah’s prisons, Mesbah-Yazdi steered clear of politics and received on the most sophisticated education that the Shi’ ite clergy could offer.
Those who know him claim that he is one of the leading experts in Shi’ite philosophy. But they also insist that he is a hardliner on social and cultural issues and a feeling of profound contempt for the modern civilization led by the Weste
rn democracies.
Mesbah-Yazdi, however, has virtually no political experience and, if elected “Supreme Guide,” might be content with providing Ahmadinejad with clerical cover only and allowing him to run the show.
A disciple of the late Iranian philosopher Ahamd Fardid, Mesbah-Yazdi is full of contradictions. On the one hand he talks of “the direct link between believers and the Hidden Imam.” On the other he claims that most believers lack the wisdom to distinguish right from wrong, and thus need to be led and looked after like children. He speaks of his dream of a universal Islamic state which would lead the way out of the “deadly maze of greed and corruption created by the West.” And yet he insists that non-Shi’ite Muslims are “deviants” and, as such, cannot participate in the conquest of the world for “true Islam.”
Whatever its outcome the election could have a major impact on the course of Iranian politics over the next few years.
As for the nuclear clock neither the old nor the new guard wish to stop it. But it requires little imag ination to see that a nuclear bomb
in the hands of messianic luminaries like Ahmadinejad and Mesbah-Yazdi would be more frightening than in the hands of mullahs like Rafsanjani and Khatami with business interests and contacts in the West.
End Usurps from Jerusalem Post Extract
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