Iranian politics on display (sort of), part 2
Iranian hardliners accuse former nuclear negotiator of leaking secrets to UK embassy
"Two days after the Iranian president denounced critics of his hardline nuclear policy as 'traitors', Hossein Mousavian, a moderate who favours compromise over Iran's dispute with the west, was accused by the country's intelligence chief of supplying classified information to 'foreigners'.
"In a move that raised the ante inside Iran, Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei, the intelligence minister, said he believed Mousavian - a former ambassador to Germany and associate of the former president Hashemi Rafsanjani - had betrayed national security. Mousavian... has become a proxy struggle between radicals supporting Ahmadinejad and pragmatists favouring negotiation...
"The attacks on Mousavian appear to be part of a broader offensive against a coalition of pragmatic conservatives and reformists allied to Rafsanjani, who has emerged as a rallying figure for opponents of the hardline president. Rafsanjani, chairman of the experts' assembly, an important clerical body, has warned that Ahmadinejad's confrontational rhetoric risks pushing Iran into a military confrontation with the US...
"On Monday, Mousavian was present while Rafsanjani criticised the government's policies at a conference on national unity..."
See also: The Guardian's list of links for news about Iran
posted by Ken Wedding @ 7:49 AM
1 Comments:
Larijani himself has radical point of view but copared to ahmadinejad he is moreasonable
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