Regime Seeks to Appoint New "Grand Ayatollahs" (IRAN)

Roozonline ^ | 11/20/09 | Ali Farokhi

[AdmSmith]

Following the escalation of protests by Iran’s senior ayatollahs against the regime, some members of the Qom Seminary Teachers Association (the most important organization of clerics affiliated with the regime) are planning to present a new list of “grand ayatollahs” under the supervision of Mohammad Yazdi, Ahmad Jannati and Mesbah Yazdi.

According to rumors, the new list of grand ayatollahs will include people such as Jafar Sobhani, Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, Khoshvaght and a number of other ayatollahs approved by the regime. Credible reports indicate that prominent grand ayatollahs such as Montazeri and Zanjani will not have a place on the list. One informed source also reports that individuals such as grand ayatollah Ali Safi, the descendant of ayatollah Behjat’s seminary, or Sanei, seyyed Ali Mohaghegh Damad, Dastgheib Shirazi and Bayat Zanjani will not have a place on the list either due to their criticism of the regime’s behavior.

[AdmSmith]

Mohammad Taghi Mesbah Yazdi, the Crocodilian extremist is trying to increase his influence in Iran.

[AdmSmith]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad-Taqi_Mesbah-Yazdi

[AdmSmith]

Crocodile ping

[Marty62]

HUH I thought they said these Ayaholeas we picked by Allah?

[nuconvert]

I guess it’s not a surprise

[SolidWood]

The rule of Ayatollahs, the velayat faqih, has to end altogether. They seek a replacement, because the coot Khamenei is soon dropping dead from cancer. They are all bad, but I think Mesbah-Yazdi would be the worst of all. He is the nuttiest of all nuts.

On the other hand, Qom might try to con the public by picking a "nicer" Ayatoilet than Khamenei.

But their clock is running out. 30 years of tyranny are going to end soon enough.

Ping!

[PapaBear3625]

Iran has been “ruled by Islam” for so long, that anger against the regime can easily turn into being fed up with Islam entirely.

[SolidWood]

Yes. Islam was violenty imposed by Arab conquerors 1400 years ago, but Shia Islam is "official religion" just since a little over 300 years. Half a century of progress and secularization under the Pahlavis from 1921-1979 has been thrown back by the clergy. The generation under 60 then, didn't know what life was before the secularization of Iran. That's part of the reason why the clergy succesfully conned many people in 1979 into supporting them blindly.

Ironically this 30 year "shock therapy" of the mullah's true nature was probably what was needed to wake people up.

There is a study (I'll try to look it up) that nowhere in the "islamic world" mosque attendance and praying is so low as in Iran.

The mullahs have done a pretty good job at convincing people what their "faith" is all about.

[FARS]

The race is on - who will get to the finish line first? The Iranian people who want freedom or America which wants to save its freedoms from the Marxist-Islamist Oba-Hussein administration?

[SolidWood]

I hope that President Palin will be the first US president to visit a free Iran.

[FARS]

From your lips to God’s ear

[freedomfiter2]

At first I thought this article was about Obama’s Czars.

[Merta]

Yeah, all of this shuffling around doesn’t matter much. Eventually, the people who have suffered under the Islamic whip of the mullahs of Iran will prevail.

[AdmSmith]

The threat to the institution of Supreme Leader is real enough that Ayatollah Mesbah-Yazdi, Khamenei’s spiritual guide and a staunch supporter of President Ahmadinejad, had to reassure the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (which relies on Khamenei for its power). That's like chairman of the Democratic party reassuring people that the presidency has a future. According to Persian state-run news reports, Mesbah-Yazdi said, Velayat-e faqih is like the column that keeps the tent of Islam standing. In an Islamic state, everything derives its legitimacy from the velayat. Any movement weakening the velayat is equal to weakening Islam and doing a satanic deed.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/223345/page/1

Assume that it is the other way round, and that Yazdi is afraid that the IRGC will dispose of Khamenei and that Yazdi has to impose fear into the IRGC in order to prevent them from doing this...

[FourPeas]

Now that cries for an end to the theocracy are out in the open, undoubtedly the thought of rejecting Islam is there, too. I read a blog where one student actually proclaimed his disbelief in Islam. More and more, I see Iranians describing themselves as the children of Cyrus, claiming not only their pre-Islam heritage, but perhaps, too, the heritage of a ruler who was tolerant of many religions.

[PapaBear3625]

There is a cognitive dissonance among the students. They want Freedom, yet consider themselves Muslims, Slaves of Allah. Personal freedom is incompatible with Islam and Sharia. When the Iranian young people finally cannot help themselves from realizing this, the effects will be dramatic.

And the civil war will be incredibly bloody.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks AdmSmith.

[FARS]

We have a compilation of the top families and family ties of the Mullahs and their inter-relationships. It’s in Farsi and will be posted shortly in the Multilingual Section of AntiMullah. If time and energy permit, we might put out an English language version. It’s the Mullah corollary of the 1,000 top families of Iran in the time of the Monarchy.

Anyone want to do a translation, feel free. should be going up within an hour

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[April Lexington]

“grand ayatollahs”

Compare to Christ washing the feet of his disciples....