tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5169130203475264933.post1368307402602448129..comments2024-03-10T22:24:34.032-04:00Comments on Uskowi on Iran - اسکویی در باره ایران: IRGC Commander: Election of A Reformist Was a ‘Red Line’ in 2009Nader Uskowihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02808543185109048956noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5169130203475264933.post-49676327039153243622014-06-03T15:44:21.641-04:002014-06-03T15:44:21.641-04:00The islamic regime has clearly shown it is incapab...The islamic regime has clearly shown it is incapable of reform.Very soon the people will have to step over its dead carcass to attain their freedom.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5169130203475264933.post-65354282971342585862014-06-02T07:00:25.053-04:002014-06-02T07:00:25.053-04:00Mark, BTW your objection to Jafari should not be w...Mark, BTW your objection to Jafari should not be why he discussed that critical episode in the history of the Islamic Republic so frankly, but why shouldn't he now be charged with crimes against the constitution and rigging of the country's national election.Nader Uskowihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02808543185109048956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5169130203475264933.post-65877341063040022962014-06-02T06:50:29.168-04:002014-06-02T06:50:29.168-04:00IRGC is not entrusted by the constitution to choos...IRGC is not entrusted by the constitution to choose the country's president. Determining which of the candidates on the ballot should come out as winner and which one should lose, or as Khamenei's representative to IRGC had put it, "engineering" election results by the IRGC, is actually a coup. <br /><br />Now after Jafari's confession, the regime should have no excuses but to release Mousavi and Karrubi, the "losing" candidates, who have been detained without charge since that infamous election. Nader Uskowihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02808543185109048956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5169130203475264933.post-14396473613035339762014-06-02T02:19:47.131-04:002014-06-02T02:19:47.131-04:00I don't see this as a departure from the IRGC ...I don't see this as a departure from the IRGC leadership posture leading up to the 2009n election. Back then the pre-election issue with the IRGC was the leadership's advocacy-- some characterized it as "pressure"-- for the rank and file IRGC to vote for a specific candidate of their choice, and not the reformists. The objection against the IRGC at the time referenced Khomeini's position that the military refrain from politics. <br /><br />The IRGC response to that objection was (and continues to be) that a reformist win was against the interests of the Islamic Republic, and they went still further with concerns of a potential coup in the offing. In their view, the post election actions of M and K, and the resulting unrest provided confirmation of an attempted coup.<br /><br />Whatever the case, from the standpoint of Iran's political establishment it surely isn't in their interest for Jafari to again rehash this subject, particularly in such seemingly direct terms. But then the IRGC and Basij leadership are continuously making "revolutionary" statements that differ little from that which was recently offered by the IRGC commander.Mark Pyruzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00595161519097596575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5169130203475264933.post-6960253900431827972014-06-01T23:21:20.960-04:002014-06-01T23:21:20.960-04:00Jafari's comments indeed represent a clear adm...Jafari's comments indeed represent a clear admission by the IRGC that they would not have accepted a Mousavi victory, it was a "red line" for them; and Ahmadinejad was declared the winner only minutes after the polls closed in order to prevent the election to go to the second round between Mousavi and Ahmadinejad . His very frank comments, indeed his confession, support assertions by some, including this blogger, that the 2009 election results were rigged to stop Mousavi's outright victory, or at the least prevent the election to go to a second round. Historically important comments by someone who was at the heart of the controversy. This is as close as we have gotten to have the IRGC commander confessing to a coup-like behavior in 2009.Nader Uskowihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02808543185109048956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5169130203475264933.post-76913392880017471132014-06-01T21:56:00.262-04:002014-06-01T21:56:00.262-04:00Jafari's comments do not represent an admissio...Jafari's comments do not represent an admission or a departure from what the security apparatus had been claiming during the post-election period of 2009.<br /><br />The security apparatus, which includes the IRGC, had cited the Mousavi campaign's public statement preceding the vote count that it had "won" the election, as evidence of an attempted coup in progress. Further post-election actions by Mousavi/Karoubi and the unrest that followed, confirmed this view of the Iranian security apparatus. <br /><br />Interesting to note that a commission was established for the 2013 election, as well as an accepted procedure for candidates to not engage in similar pre-tally statements of victory, a procedure all candidates adhered to during the presidential election of 2013. Mark Pyruzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00595161519097596575noreply@blogger.com