As the Majlis goes into its second summer recess, 200 representatives signed a statement calling for the dismissal of president Ahmadinejad’s aide, Rahim Mashaei over his remarks about friendship with the people of Israel.
The statement, which began with a quote by Mashaei, “We are friends with Israeli people”, wrote “When these strange and unacceptable remarks which are in contradiction to the principled policies of the Islamic republic and are in express opposition to the position of the grand Imam (i.e. ayatollah Khomeini) and the current leader were made by a deputy of the president Rahim Mashaei were made, it was thought that he had made a political mistake which could be corrected through a rebuttal. But when the remarks were followed up by “For the thousandth time and stronger than before I announce … “ a serious warning bell was sounded in the regime which indicated an unacceptable deviation regarding one of the most important foreign policy issues of the Islamic republic of Iran.”
By asserting that the position of deputy president, which Mashaei holds, “belongs to the entire population of Iran”, the law-makers stressed in their statement that Mashaei “did not have the right to announce such a low and condemned position from a public tribune, and in general he lacks the credentials to be in that post.”
The statement ends with a call by the deputies that president Ahmadinejad “condemn the issue and deal with him (i.e. Mashaei) in a serious manner.”
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