IRGC Adviser: Iran to weed out seditious reformists from presidential election

Hamidreza Moghaddamfar said that only those reformists who did not take part in the “2009 sedition” (post-June 2009 protest) can participate in the coming presidential elections  (2013). He referred to Mohammad Khatami, the former president and top reformist figure as the “leader” of an ultra-reformist group. “Unfortunately, some of the reformists who were not involved in the sedition of 2009 have sustained heavy blows because of the extremism of a group of their peers whose leader is Mr. Khatami.” Moghaddamfar expressed surprise that the ultra-reformists are still vying for power by attempting to run in the presidential elections. In the sedition of 2009, the reformist front in its entirety joined the hegemonic front against the Revolution, started street rebellions and made allegations against the regime… One wonders how the extremist current of this movement shamelessly expresses its readiness to participate in the next presidential elections and some of them even make conditions for that. In recent weeks, Mohammad Khatami and Abdallah Nouri, two senior reformist figures in Iranian politics, have been attending meetings to discuss how reformists, who have been heavily sidelined since 2009, can return to the political arena in next year’s elections.

Source: Iran Daily Brief

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