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Posted on 12/03/2006 8:31:42 PM PST by BigFinn
Vast majority of Iranian lawmakers vote to move up presidential elections by 18 months, final say on matter up to Ahmadinejad's arch-rival.
Will Ahmadinejad's term be cut short? The Iranian parliament voted on Sunday to unite the presidential elections with the upcoming parliamentary ones, this according to the official Iranian news agency.
The proposal, which passed with a surprising 80 percent majority, may cut the term of sitting President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad by 18 months.
The bill must still be ratified by the Iranian constitutional committee, which is headed by former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Ahmadinejad's arch-rival, a fact which many see as indicative that the bill will indeed be authorized.
Rafsanjani himself is considered one of the most powerful politicians in Iran and is currently running for a position in the Assembly of Experts, an 86-strong body of ayatollahs who monitor the Iranian Supreme Leader (a position currently held by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei). The Assembly has the power to dismiss the Supreme Leader. Already existing tensions have heightened between Ahmadinejad and Rafsanjani as the latter is pitted directly against Ahmadinejad's spiritual mentor Masbah Yazdi who is also vying for a spot on the Assembly of Experts.
One of the reasons cited in the proposal for bringing the two elections together is cutting the costs brought on by a double election. Opponents to the bill claimed that cutting the president's term is unconstitutional and that parliament's term should be extended to meet the original date for the presidential election.
He's a short little shiite aint he?
"Yep,,,,"DER FUHRER" Will Have Them ALL Shot,!!!..."
This comment may be closer to the truth than you realize.
Ahmadi-Nejad has placed his paramilitary Revolutionary Guard colleagues into every Islamic Iran administrative position - nationwide - starting from the very top and going all the way down to mid-lower level positions.
He has replaced top banking directors with his own people and put Mullahs loyal to him or his spiritual mentor (and Hojatieh leader Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi) to head institutions of learning.
He briefly arrested the son Hashemi Rafsanjani (mentioned in the article) as a shot cross that rival and politically strong man's bows. Plus Rafsanjani has several BILLION dollars stashed away overseas, in off shorebanks. Plus enormous real estate projects in Canada.
Because his IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps) paramilitary pesonnel (better equipped and trained than regular military forces) are capable of enacting a military coup at will, he has even privately threatened to arrest/remove Supreme Ruler Ali Khamenei for "dereliction of Islamic duty" or anyone else who opposes his Hojatieh philosophy.
For a heads up on Hojatieh go to http://www.antimullah.com and in the Archive details page check out "Think Iran Think Hojatieh".
Also read "Mullah Threat Not Sinking In", direct permalink to be found on that page too. (Also published on FrontPageMagazine).
In view of the recent drop in the value of the dollar showing how vulnerable our currency is to the slightest vagaries of various Central Banks (this time a couple of sneezes by China) around the world, you should also read "Oil Story revisited" found on Archive Details.
The Al Qaeda attack on our banking system has been presented in the press as hacking into our systems somewhat in the way of year 2000 virus threats. In reality it will more likely be done through finding ways to trigger dollar sell offs and unhooking purchase of oil from the present obligatory use of dollar currency to do this.
Iran's Oil Exchange, never likely to succeed nor intended to make money for Iran, by offering oil for Euros, barter or anything but dollars will by itself threaten the value of the dollar.
Iran's industries are in deep trouble, factory workers have often not been paid, sometimes for nearly a year, and destruction of Israel would not only prove a diversion but terrify Arab neighbors, who will feel they could be next when the region has a wily madman who cares for nothing other than Armageddon and apocalypse according to his Hojatieh philosophy.
Who also has no reason to avoid death and destruction. Including his own. Instead of suicide bombers, we face a suicide country!
Perhaps the only reason he has not already unleashed his half dozen nuclear missiles is that he is winning the war without them as the West reluctantly but inexorably caves in.
Without the horrific and dramatic solution as outlined in "Iran, Final Justified Solution" also on http://antimullah.com with direct links shown on the Archive Details Page, we can expect a clash of cultures very similar to the Crusades.
With the Western mindset ;positioned to trying to stay alive and the Islamic forces happy to die as martyrs, who looks the most likely to win?
Please vist and read the articles I mentioned and do Alan and his site a favor and promote it as far and wide as possible to truly educate or at least give Americans some insight into what we face.
A situation exacerbated by the Democratic party take over of both houses that has energized and encouraged Islamists into a renewed fervor and rush to activity.
Alan's AntiMullah site is perhaps one of the most insightful and accurate assessments of reality and your visits encourage him to make the effort to spend the long hours needed to provide analysis. On a voluntary basis. Often cutting into other tasks he has to do to earn a living.
He never asks for funds, though he certainly could use them, but appreciates seeing the number of visits to his site grow. A leg up by all of you when you propagate the site and regularly visit AntiMullah yourselves costs you nothing. Going to his sub-blog pages if Home Page posts fall behind.
Some visitors spend an hour or two reading what he has posted. There are four or five sub-blogs (links to them in the left hand column).
More and more Freepers appear to have come to acknowledge the value of his site and his efforts to promote information and analysis based on his long years (over 25)in the region and good contacts, which often provide details not generally available elsewhere. And sometimes before even the Wire Services get hold of the news.
While he acknowledges nobody owes him anything for his voluntary effort, he would certainly be grateful for the help that Freeper campaigns to increase his readership would bring his single-handed AntiMullah efforts.
If I remember correctly, Abolhassan Bani-Sadr was chased out of the country, and Mohammed Ali Raja'i was blown up. All the other Iranian presidents, however, have been re-elected when their first term ended.
Just more smoke and redirection.
Thanks FARS. Good site. I have bookmarked it.
Thanks FARS for the info and links.
The next Abadabadoo is the same as the first. Until they have real freedom it is just another Islamic fanatic.
Pray for W and Our Troops
Sounds like there might be internal conflict in Iran.
We pray for his overthrow. And the murderous mullahs. Let's hope that what happened to the committeee of public safety after the French revolution happens as well in Iran.
Because his IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps) paramilitary pesonnel (better equipped and trained than regular military forces) are capable of enacting a military coup at will, he has even privately threatened to arrest/remove Supreme Ruler Ali Khamenei for "dereliction of Islamic duty" or anyone else who opposes his Hojatieh philosophy.
alas, a bit older:
Iran's parliament wants presidential elections over one year early
Monsters and Critics.com | Dec 3, 2006 | Deutsche Presse-Agentur
Posted on 12/03/2006 5:46:39 AM EST by Biscuit85
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1747756/posts
"Psiphon"
That is awesome!
It's good to know they can access the rest of the world.
Love your conehead, too. ;o)
TANKS for the link,,,The lil'man from iran has some plans,,
Soon,,,,,Watchin'.........
"I think they are more scared of the USA.
If they were, they'd not have allowed a bunch of college students (Ahmanutjob among them) to take over a US embassy and hold a bunch of our diplomats hostage for 444 days in the late 1970's."
Bah...that was back when Jimmah was POTUS...remember how they suddenly decided to release all the hostages on the same day Reagan was sworn in? They fear and respect strength. It's clear they ARE afraid of W, even though they don't want everyone to know it.
"...Because his IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps) paramilitary pesonnel (better equipped and trained than regular military forces) are capable of enacting a military coup at will,..."
I saw that and thought to myself, 'how uneasy lies the head that wears the crown'...hehe...rooster today, feather duster tomorrow.
"Does Iran have 100% voter turnout as Iraq did under Hussein's reign?"
Actually no. Disgruntled Ministry of Interior employees initially released REAL voting statistics in the first round of the Presidential election - that indicated about 7% (seven percent) of the populace voted despite busing groups from one precinct to another to cast multiple votes.
(Also done for the benefit of foreign journalists, who were restricted to only a handful of predetermined locations and not allowed to observe any other locations.
Shortly after that, the Interior Ministry was forbidden to issue statistics, which then came from a a source connected to the Supreme Ruler. (At that time fully supporting Ahmadi-Nejad against Rafsanjani.
Notably, most of these votes cast were from government employees and students, whose jobs and permission to attend university or higher learning institutions depended on their having a "voted" ink stamp in the national ID card.
A vast majority of these dropped in BLANK ballots! They got their ID stamped but voted for nobody. The results were totally fixed. As Stalin said: "who votes (or how many vote) is irrelevant, who counts the votes is important".
With Rafsanjani clashing today with Supreme Ruler Khamenei for a variety of reasons, and Hojatieh spiritual leader Mesbah Yazdi vying for the post of Supreme Ruler, there is toil and trouble - bubble, bubble.
Unfortunately, only Ahmadi-Nejad has enough actual clout via the Revolutionary Guards he seeded into place to decide the outcome. The other shoe dropping is whether he exercises that option or perhaps when will he do so.
HE is NOT just a figurehead as some describe him - just playing his extremely strong hand like a fox - avoiding confrontation with his local enemies, like Khamenei or Rafsanjani till absolutely necessary.
And with Guardian Council elections in the offing (this month if implemented as scheduled) he stands a chance of a virtually totally free hand to do as he pleases if his mentor Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi becomes Supreme Ruler.
They are philosophically joined at the hip and head about the need to wipe Israel off the face of the world map and about the Hojatieh desire to give the 12th Imam ample reason to return and transform the world into an Islamic one.
Maybe President Putin will invite him up for some tea.
Much of the work for nukes went on during Khatemi's Presidency, during which this supposed moderate (he is, but it's relative- he still hates the Jews) and Clinton made overtures to Iran. Ironic that during the time relations were frendliest in nearly 20 years, the Iranians progressed rapidly toward nukes.
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