LAT: Key Iran cleric's party dismisses vote results
The statement by Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani's party heightens the confrontation between President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's camp and supporters of reformist challenger Mir-Hossein Mousavi...The statement by the Kargozaran Sazandegi, or Executives of Construction Party, all but cleared away weeks of ambiguity about the stance of the powerful cleric Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani..."We declare that the result is unacceptable due to the unhealthy voting process, massive electoral fraud and the siding of the majority of the Guardian Council with a specific candidate," said the statement issued by the party...
...The Revolutionary Guard is trying hard to stifle such criticism. The uniformed leaders, Jafari and Javani, joined by cleric Ali Saeedi, Khamenei's representative, said they would henceforth play a more active role in defending the Islamic Republic's core values, though they insisted this should not be interpreted as "interfering" in politics...(LA Times).
Full Article: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iran-security7-2009jul07,0,2303204.story?track=rss
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