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Originally Posted by octothorp
Not something that they can do without any sort of political or military power. The most senior Grand Ayatollah in Iran slammed the election results, saying that no sane person could possibly believe them, an opinion that was supported by a lot of the Qom religious community. If there is any political change in Iran, moderate Grand Ayatollahs such as Montazeri and Rafsanjani have been campaigning for widespread political reform for years and will be at the forefront of any meaningful change to the power system in the country.
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And that right there leads me to believe that while there are moderate Ayatollah's (I'm not disputing that) there are just as many hard-liners with equal or greater power that are not going to let widespread political reform happen.
And when I say Mahmoud is a puppet, he essentially is - he's a hand-picked candidate from the Council of Guardians, a council which has jurors approved by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, a man known for his staunch opposition to Israel and the West. This is, as you should obviously know, in addition to the Council of Gauardians approving the Assembly of Experts. The Council is composed of "jurors who are supposed to be conscious and politically aware of the issues of the day."
For you to say that Mahmoud isn't a puppet of Ayatollah Khamenei and the Assembly of Experts is completely laughable. Just laughable.