[Mb-civic] FW: Rafsanjani's captivating confessions

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From: Samii Shahla <shahla at thesamiis.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 13:36:12 -0500
Subject: Rafsanjani's captivating confessions


  2005 Thursday 20 January

Rafsanjani's captivating confessions

Iran Press News

In a recent interview with the Islamic regime's own official newspaper,
Hashemi Rafsanjani, the ex-president of the Islamic Republic of Iran
(1989-1997) and chief cleptocrat of the regime, declared that Khatami
never had any intention of reforming anything from the very beginning.
He added: "Look back at 7 years ago when all the declarations of Reform
started; look and see what, if anything has changed."


Rafsanjani continued: "One day, Mr. Khatami and I had an audience with
His Leadership (Khamenei); the subject of reforms came up. Mr. Khatami
stated that he had never actually spoken of reforms per se and that in
fact he did his best to impliment "The Third Strategem" which in fact
was the de facto blueprint created by the command's assembly (grand
Ayatollahs appointed by the supreme leader).

  Rafsanjani went on to confess that there is absolutely no difference
between the various factions of the regime and that it is all nothing
more than rhetoric, euphemisms and knowing how to play with words! He
affirmed that what the so-called Reformists have been pitching ideas
that ten, fifteen years ago hardliners had already begun considering.
"For example, "he said, "the people who took over the U.S. Embassy used
to have very specific discussions about how they were interested in
pursuing various liberal movements; at that time, those people were
among Leftists. Now, those very same leftists are taking a conservative
stance."
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http://www.iranpressnews.com/english/source/002804.html

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