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(Jaras News Report from Tehran) In one of the weekly meetings between the Supreme Leader and the head of the Assembly of Experts during Spring 2010/1389, Hashemi Rafsanjani protested against the appointment of some individuals of ill-repute such as Hossein Taeb (Revolutionary Guards’ Intelligence Adviser), Mohammad Reza Naghdi (Commander of the Basij) and Heidar Moslehi (Minister of Intelligence) to executive positions in the country’s intelligence, calling them a “handful of rogues and ruffians”. Mr. Khamenei responded to this saying, “These ones are good! They can quash out the strife!”
It is necessary to note that Hossein Taeb, under Ali Fallahian at the Ministry of Intelligence was an adviser on counterintelligence affairs, was dismissed and thrown out from the Ministry of Intelligence because he presented flawed intelligence on Ali Sarkouhi’s file before the President at the time, Hashemi Rafsanjani.
Taeb then immediately acquired a job in the Office of the Leader. Taeb is one of the closest friends of Seyed Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of the Supreme Leader. During (last year’s) suppression of the Green Movement, Taeb was a Basij commander and one of the darkest points on his record was the brutal murder of Mousavi. On the issue concerning the interrogation of political and media activists, done entirely by Revolutionary Guards interrogators, Taeb had been a key player.
Mr. Khamenei’s firm defense of Taeb in the meeting with Hashemi Rafsanjani shows that he is completely satisfied with the actions of the Basij, Revolutionary Guards, and Intelligence, and that this brutality has materialized at his direct command.