NCRI – Iranian regime’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been branded ‘stubborn, arrogant and despotic’ by a member of the regime’s parliament.
The highly personal attack by Ali Motahari exposes ever deepening rifts between rival factions in the Islamic dictatorship.
Motahari told the state-run Mehr news agency: “Ahmadinejad’s main weak point is his wrongful picture of the role of president.
“He thinks that whoever wins the presidential elections can impose his own economic, cultural and political views. Whereas, the president is just an executor of the whole government’s policies which are for the parliament to approve.
Motahari also attacked Ahmadinejad’s ‘stubbornness’ in his interpretation of the Koran, before going on to list a raft of other faults in Ahmadinejad.
These included, ‘fragility and instability in his role, refusing to apologize for mistakes’, ‘being too soft on cultural issues, particularly the wearing the veil,
flawed wrong intellectual tendencies like promoting the thesis of Iran instead of Islam, inability to attract political parties, lack of financial discipline, executing projects without due consideration and neglecting the the opinions of clerics.
Motahari is a brother-in-law of current Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani, and has previously tried to summon Ahmadinejad to parliament to face questioning and possible impeachment.
