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14 Jun 2009 05:16 pm
The Regime Turning On Itself?
Steve Clemons debriefs a source well connected to Iran's elite:
The scariest point he made to me that I had not heard anywhere else
is that this "coup by the right wing" has created pressures that cannot
be solved or patted down by the normal institutional arrangements Iran
has constructed. The Guardian Council and other power nodes of
government can't deal with the current crisis and can't deal with the
fact that a civil war has now broken out among Iran's revolutionaries.
My contact predicted serious violence at the highest levels. He said
that Ahmadinejad is now genuinely scared of Iranian society and of
Mousavi and Rafsanjani. The level of tension between them has gone
beyond civil limits -- and my contact said that Ahmadinejad will try to
have them imprisoned and killed.
Likewise, he said, Rafsanjani, Khatami, and Mousavi know this -- and
thus are using all of the instruments at their control within Iran's
government apparatus to fight back -- but given Khamenei's embrace of
Ahmadinejad's actions in the election and victory, there is no recourse
but to try and remove Khamenei. Some suggest
that Rafsanjani will count votes to see if there is a way to formally
dislodge Khamenei -- but this source I met said that all of these
political giants have resources at their disposal to "do away with"
those that get in the way.
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