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NCRI –\u00a0Ali Motahari, a Deputy Speaker of the Iranian regime\u2019s parliament has said that the former chairman of the regime\u2019s expediency council Ali-Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani believed in 2005 that the elections had been engineered.<\/p>\nNCRI –\u00a0Ali Motahari, a Deputy Speaker of the Iranian regime\u2019s parliament has said that the former chairman of the regime\u2019s expediency council Ali-Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani believed in 2005 that the elections had been engineered.<\/p>\n
\u201cRafsanjani complained in this regard, as a result of which 110 military commanders were convicted of \u2018election manipulation\u2019\u201d, Motahari said in an interview with the state-run Jamaran website on February 2.<\/p>\n
Motahari added that \u201cRafsanjani told me that he was worried it would be too bad for the system if the court ruling was going to be implemented, so he decided not to pursue it any further.\u201d<\/p>\n
As Motahari claims, the reason for Rafsanjani\u2019s candidacy in the 2005 Presidential election was not that he was seeking power, but he entered the race due to his alarm at the presence of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.<\/p>\n
\u201cAhmadinejad was smart and found out soon that part of the system wanted Rafsanjani to be sidelined\u201d, maintained Motahari.<\/p>\n
Regarding Rafsanjani\u2019s disagreements with the regime\u2019s supreme leader Ali Khamenei, Motahari said that \u201cHashemi Rafsanjani believed that the election had not been healthy. As a matter of fact, the disagreement between Hashemi and the leader began right at that time, namely from the time Ahmadinejad entered, since the leader totally believed in Ahmadinejad and strongly supported him whereas Hashemi regarded Ahmadinejad as a threat for the revolution (regime), and this naturally led to a disagreement.\u201d<\/p>\n
On February 24, 2016, Rafsanjani pointed to Khamenei\u2019s support for Ahmadinejad, saying that \u201call the achievements of the revolution was put on sale in the 2005 presidential election. I warned the authorities as well as public broadcasting officials while talking to reporters at the time, not to act on a whim, setting Caesarea on fire for a worthless piece of cloth.\u201d<\/p>\n
Iranian Resistance President-elect Maryam Rajavi said that Rafsanjani\u2019s death on January 8, 2017 would lead to the regime losing its \u201cinternal and external equilibrium.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"