Defeat of Rafsanjani in election is not regarded as collapse of his power

Defeat of Rafsanjani in election is not regarded as collapse of his power
Interview with Mr. Mohammad-Hassan Ghadiri-Abianeh, fundamentalist political analyst, advisor to chairman of Expediency Council, former ambassador in Australia:
Wednesday, October 12, 2005

With attention to the fact that Supreme Leader formulates the general policies of the country following consultation with Expediency Council, so entrustment of supervision to implementation of the general policies “which is a power of leader“ to the Expediency Council is a wise decision because Expediency Council plays a vital role in compilation of the general policies also.

Revival of Rafsanjani?

Of course this approval has given more power to the Expediency Council and naturally its chairman

(Rafsanjani) but Rafsanjani has a very brilliant capability and beloved personality and he constantly had and has high position in the Islamic system, so we can not conclude that the aim of this decision is to increase power of Rafsanjani. Aim of the leader has been “proficiency in supervision to implementation of the general policies of the country” and entrustment of this power to Expediency Council shows the deep confidence of Leader Khamenei to Rafsanjani.

Defeat of Rafsanjani in election is not regarded as collapse of his power.

Some people believe that this time Khamenei tries to curb power of hardliners and he is going to play role of a balancer. What is your idea?

This supervision does not decrease powers of any branch (Judiciary, Majlis, and executive). Here just channel of supervision of leader is specified. Channel of supervision by leader is Expediency council. Such analysis like controlling the hardliners, or making a balance between the political groups is completely wrong and baseless. You know that this decision was made some years ago and during the former government. Process of compilation of its regulations took long some years. So there is no relation between time of announcing this decision and presidency of Ahmadinejad. This approval would come in to execution in this time regardless of victory of any of the candidates of presidency.

The positive or negative effects of this decision?

It has no negative outcome. This is a wise decision and a logical principle for management. When a policy “micro or macro“ is formulated, there must be enough mechanism to implement it duly. About the general policies of the country the leader has prepared the mechanism of supervision to the implementation of these policies by the same body which is intervened in formulation of these policies.

So this is a very expertise plan and has no fault or negative point.

Dr. Ghadiri Abyaneh
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