Posted on 07/11/2009 4:02:19 PM PDT by Texas Fossil
A report says senior conservative clerics are concerned over Ayatollah Khamenei's alleged attempt to groom his son for leadership.
As protesters return to the streets in Iran to demonstrate against Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and the results of the recent election, a new report says that Mr. Khamenei's son, Mojtaba Khamenei, is leading the government's anti-protest militias.
The Guardian reports that, according to "a politician with strong connections to the security apparatus" in Iran, Mr. Mojtaba's leading role in the crackdown has "dismayed many of the country's senior clerics, conservative politicians, and Revolutionary Guard generals."
(Excerpt) Read more at csmonitor.com ...
"Mojtaba may also be involved in the recent souring of diplomatic relations between Iran and Britain. The British government, as part of the international sanctions against Iran for its nuclear program, froze $1.64 billion in Iranian assets last month, reported Reuters.
Unsourced reports, referenced by The Guardian and Iran portal site Payvand.com, say that the money belongs to Mojtaba, and as a result may be a factor in Iran's detention of several British embassy employees in Tehran. Earlier this week, Iran released the eighth of the nine employees held, leaving only the embassy's chief political analyst, an Iranian, still in detention."
don’t you just love this “conservative” cleric stuff... they used to call them “hardline”
What do you call people who torture citizens who demonstrate against election fraud?
Hardline?
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Here in the U.S. we may call them Commies. They do not torture yet, but they certainly will try and destroy them.
What a nice story! Kim Jong Il and his son, Saddam and his sons, Quadafi and his son...
This is how things are in the Middle East, tribal. And in Africa.
There is some merit to associating with your own, that you trust. But nepotism is a bad thing, and a lot of cultures forbid it.
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