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Ahmadinejad appointed his most trusted confidant as deputy Interior Minster |
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Monday, 30 October 2006 |
What does Mahmoud Ahmadinejad hope to achieve by appointing his right-hand man and most trusted confidant, Mojtaba Hashemi-Samareh as Deputy Interior Minister?
Mojtaba Hashemi-Samareh is a Revolutionary Guardsman-turned-politician. From the early 80's he became friends with Ahmadinejad. He is the only person that Ahmadinejad accepts to stand in front of him during prayers. Moreover, he is considered as the mentor for the so-called hardliner faction in Iran. He is always present in the president's meetings. All of sudden he is appointed as Deputy Interior Minister in political affairs.
Hashemi-Samareh has been appointed to the job at a time when Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi is the Interior Minster and Mohammad Bagher-Zolghadar is the first Deputy Interior Minister.
Pour-Mohammadi himself was Deputy Intellacegce Minister when Ali Falahein was the boss at the notorious Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS). Pour-Mohammadi's record is self explanatory when it comes to his key role in the mass execution of political prisoners in Iran in the summer of 1988. Boghaer-Zolghadar's record is equally applying since he has been one of the founders of the Revolutionary Guards' Croup and the so-called Plain-Clothes agents which is the most potent force to the regime's Supreme Leader Ali-Khamenei. These agents were instrumental in the last presidential campaigns in favor of Ahmadinejad.
Alongside of these two criminal figures, Hashemi-Samareh can play a vital role, although in reality he has a much higher standing than two other individuals in the eyes of Ahmadinejad.
With the latest appointment of Hashemi-Samareh the team is complete. Boghaer-Zolghadar is the master mind of operational and security and Hashemi-Samareh is the ideologue for the right wing hardliner, Ahmadinejad guarantee the Assembly of Experts elections to turn in favor of Khamenei.
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