Published on 27 October 2009 to Rooz Online
source (English): http://www.roozonline.com/english/opinion/opinion-article/article/2009/october/27//the-iranian-republic.html
German translation: Julia, for further publication please give link to this post
These days one hears in Tehran instead of moderate calls for calm, proud and unforgiving voices that after a continuation of the war against the reformers call - reformer, against the official results of the elections of 12 June and their supporters protest.
On one side of this battle are the commanders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), the military, their mission according to its own in defense of the ideals of the Revolution of 1979 and is confronted with internal political threats. During the presidential Mohammad Khatami - a comparatively liberal and moderate clergy - the Garden have emerged as one of the most reliable opponent of the government. However, since Mahmoud Ahmadinejad became president in 2005, the Revolutionary Guards not only free from the pressure of the executive, but also their economic power by means of extensive and lucrative contracts extended with the government.
In the bloody events at the deeply controversial presidential election on 12 Followed in June, the commander of the Garden seemed to have made it their task, all the critics and dissidents fatal blow to. For example: The IRGC commander Aziz Jaafari found out, that Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani - a co-founder of the Islamic Republic's most prominent cleric in the 30-year history of the regime - the events were not happy about him, he pointed at him in an authoritarian manner, he should be silent.
At the other end of the spectrum are the ministers of the environment Ayatollah Khamenei, hand in hand with the guards to remove their rivals from the ranks of the clergy who believe that the public and the law are paramount, while they consider themselves Khamenei's word as final and conclusive.
described recently Head of the Political Council of the Friday prayers protesting Taghavi critics as traitors to Ayatollah Khamenei, adding that traitors should not get away so easily.
The hardliners were even more aggressive than Mahdavi Kani, secretary general of the moderate clerical grouping Jame Rohaniyat Mobarez Association it is the declared objective was, as a mediator between the two warring factions to work. This news was a sharp reaction by the pro-government media. In the past four months, this media annoyed repeatedly called on the judiciary, leaders of the Green movement as an agent of the recent "subversive to have activities to arrest and bring to justice.
On the other hand, this struggle is a struggle against the reformers. Karroubi, Mir Hossein Moussavi and Mohammad Khatami have joined forces and combined their calls for resistance. And while its media channels are closed and their allies behind grids were placed, reached their message with millions of followers in the green movement
[Prob "of which" - in the original missing something here] The far-reaching consequences. schisms and factions in Iran, and the dissemination of the idea in public, that the Islamic Republic of Iran over the extremist government standards of Ahmadinejad, because of the trailer and the person of the supreme leader is no longer in a position to lead the country and control. Therefore, according to the call for a demonstration at Iranian Republic.
Although this is not an alternative to the Islamic Republic, but these are certainly a message and a statement that is designed to ensure that if the Islamic Republic is the system that occur for the current leader and President, the best thing would be if it were another form of government to make way. And this other form of government is what the demonstrators called Republic of Iran, based on the views of the majority of Iranians, would not only based on the beliefs some people.
The call for such a change is important because, initially as the green movement began with their protests, they did so only as a demand for an investigation of fraudulent manipulation of the presidential election on 12 June. Now, however, a new scale has been created to warn those in power in Iran and recalled that these states themselves to blame and that the public demands more radical changes.
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