Assembly of Experts: 'Crises have ended'

GVF -- The seventh session of the Fourth Assembly of Experts came to an end yesterday as members issued a statement claiming an end to the crises in the country.

The resolution adopted following the Assembly of Experts’ seventh meeting states that “this painful period [following the presidential elections] has come to an end with the worthy leadership and wise guidance of the Supreme Leader” and the “strong and widespread presence of the people.” The statement describes the handling of the post-election unrest as a “success.”

The strongly worded statement adds that “the patience of the honourable and revolutionary people of Iran and that of the Islamic republic” had come to an “end” following 30 December, after “numerous chances given to the leaders of sedition for repentance and a return to the revolution and the ideals of Imam Khomeini.”

Referring to the leaders of the Green Movement, the resolution adopted by the clerical assembly claims that the people of Iran have “erased” the leaders of the “sedition from their political memory.”
 
However the tone of the resolution which speaks of an “end” to the crises and the “leaders of the sedition,” is not in line with statements by Hashemi Rafsanjani (head of the Assembly) on the first day of the its meeting when he talked about "unfortunate” and “unprecedented” incidents in Iran “that no Muslim heart could accept.” He called for on “sympathy” and “tending to” those who were somehow harmed following the post-election unrest.

In order to “tend to” protesters and their families, that would require hundreds of Iranians to be released from the prisons of the Islamic Republic. However, nothing in that nature has taken place, which begs the question; have the crises really come to an “end” as the statement claims and who were the true authors of the Assembly’s adopted text.

Indeed, if an end has really come to the crises in the country, it does not explain why there isn’t a day when military, security and judicial officials warn of “riots” and “sedition.”

One explanation for this radically toned statement is that it was altered by a few radical supporters of the illegitimate government of Ahmadinejad and was made to look as though most of the elderly clerics at the Assembly actually support their radical ideas.

The Assembly of Experts is a clerical body composed of more than eighty members that oversee the leader's activities and have the power to remove him from his position.