NCRI – The Iranian regime will not change its policies with the election of Hassan Rouhani as president, the Supreme Leader’s representative in Kayhan daily has declared.
Hossein Shariatmadari wrote in Kayhan daily editorial that major government decision would still be made by Ali Khamenei, the regime’s Supreme Leader.
Shariatmadari said: “The determination of the government’s major policies is among the authorities of the Leader. Therefore, despite the ruckus of the external enemy and its internal followers, the government’s major policies have not and will not change with election of Rouhani.”
The presence of Rouhani as the president of the country’s executive branch should lead his supporters and opponents to either hope for or fear any major changes, he said.
Shariatmadari also said that infighting among Khamenei’s faction was one of the reasons his faction was defeated in the election.
He added: “The positioning of the other candidates against each another in the television debates and their unwillingness to withdraw for the other has caused this concern.
“Therefore, before Hassan Rohani begins to enjoy the support of those so-called reformists, he must deal with the deviant faction that have infiltrated in the government.”
