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Frank Gallagher

EurasiaNet - Larijani Faction Emerges as Third Force in Iranian Power Struggle - 0 views

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Larijani Ahmad Tavakoli Mohammad Javad Necons Sadegh Larijani C Guardians Council IRIB Conservative Infighting

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  • working hard to establish a public profile apart from hardliners led by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and from progressives led by aggrieved presidential challenger Mir Hussein Mousavi.
  • The Larijani coalition is also gaining the backing of so-called traditionalists among the Islamic clergy. So far, the new faction has not enunciated a philosophical platform,
  • Ali Larijani is emerging as the public face of the faction, but behind him stand his very influential brothers and other relatives, according to a well-connected source. One of Larijani’s brothers is Sadegh, who is one of the 12 members of the powerful Guardian Council. Another is Mohammad Javad, a physicist and prominent political strategist. The Larijanis’ cousin, Ahmad Tavakoli, a prominent rightist politician and a member of parliament, is also believed to be an important player in the faction, as is Ali Motahari, another prominent rightist political operator who is Ali Larijani’s son-in-law.
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  • Most recently, Larijani was a prominent no-show for a June 24 dinner marking Ahmadinejad’s supposed re-election.
  • At various points during the political crisis, Larijani has staked out an independent position by pointedly criticizing hardliner-controlled institutions, including the Guardian Council, the Interior Ministry and the state media agency, Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB). Despite Ayatollah Khamenei’s insistence that the presidential election results were genuine, Larijani publicly castigated the Guardian Council, the state body charged with certifying the vote, alleging that some of its members were part of a conspiracy to guarantee Ahmadinejad’s reelection.
  • Meanwhile, political analysts in Tehran suspect that Sadegh Larijani was responsible for the Guardian Council making public information -- specifically that irregularities in 50 cities tainted 3 million ballots in the election -- that proved highly embarrassing to the supreme leader. Ayatollah Khamenei has publicly characterized Ahmadinejad’s landslide as a "divine assessment."
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Solana meets with Larijani - IN PHOTOS - 0 views

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Solana Iran Larijani nuclear

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  • mehrreporter on 05 Aug 13
     
    Javier Solana met with Ali Larijani Iran parliament speaker and former nuclear negotiator on Saturday afternoon.
Frank Gallagher

Only 28 percent of MP's Support Ahmadinejad - roozonline.com - 0 views

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Majlis iranjune12 Ahmadinejad musavi Principalist Larijani

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  • Frank Gallagher on 27 May 09
     
    Larijani gets full support of MPs present, Ahmadejad can only manage 80. Principalists talking about backing Musavi.
Frank Gallagher

Iran: Ahmadinejad Takes a Political Beating, but Retains Front-Runner Role - 0 views

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  • n early March when parliament, in an unprecedented move in the Islamic Republic’s 30-year history, rebuffed the president’s move to lift state subsidies on essential items, including electricity and bread, and offset the higher prices with straight cash handouts to needy citizens.
  • When the president insisted on an "all-or-nothing" version of his subsidy plan, parliament had little choice but to reject the project, although the legislature did end up passing a $279 billion preliminary budget.
  • out-of-control spending has blown a gaping hole in the budget so that the country will face an estimated budget deficit of $46 billion.
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  • Orumieh, the capital of West Azerbaijan Province, and the place where he once served as governor. Several people flung shoes at his motorcade in an evident display of anger over his economic bungling. Ahmadinejad then cut short his appearance when he was vociferously booed while attempting to address local residents. Since then, the president has not made another trip into Iran’s provinces. And according to knowledgeable sources in Tehran, media outlets have been threatened with punishment if they report on the Orumieh embarrassment.
  • Larijani on March 25 occupied the hardliner high ground from Ahmadinejad by coming out forcefully against US President Barack Obama’s recent olive branch address, made in connection with the Iranian new year on March 21.
  • onservative opponents have also made moves to outflank him in the theological sphere by courting the support of one of Shi’a Islam’s most influential clerics, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani of Iraq. Larijani met with Ayatollah Sistani in the holy city of Najaf, Iraq, on March 25.
  • Earlier in March, another bitter rival of Ahmadinejad, Ayatollah Ali Hashemi Rafsanjani, met with Ayatollah Sistani and other top Iraqi Shi’a clerics.
  • Frank Gallagher on 06 May 09
     
    Eurasia Net on a tough March for Ahmadinejad
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