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| Assembly of Experts members criticize Rafsanjani |
| 2009-07-25 |
| [Iran Press TV Latest] Fifty members of the Assembly of Experts have signed a petition calling on Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani and the nation to fall in behind the Leader of the Islamic Revolution in the aftermath of the disputed June 12 presidential election. In a letter released on Friday, the Assembly members dismissed the opposition's objections to the official vote result that gave President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a second four-year term in office as "myths of the great election fraud, copied from the script of the velvet revolution." The signatories warned that expressing doubts about the veracity of the election would result in "despondency" among the people and help the "enemies of Islam." Given that the opposition has questioned the legitimacy of President Ahmadinejad's victory because of what they consider to have been the fraudulent counting of ballots, the letter contends that legitimacy is derived from the Leader's approval. The Assembly of Experts consists of 88 clerics. It is an elected electoral college that is tasked with electing a new leader in the event of the Leader of the Islamic Revolution's passing. It is presently headed by the veteran revolutionary figure and two-term former president Rafsanjani. |
| Posted by:Fred |