NCRI – In the latest sign of the waning hegemony of the Iranian regime’s Supreme Leader, a cleric and member of the Iranian regime’s Assembly of Experts has said that the Supreme Leader has no “right over and above people and the nation” and is only tasked with coordinating the three branches of government.
said, “The responsibility given by the Assembly of Experts to the Supreme Leader is to coordinate among the three branches of government. He does not stand over and above the just experts that have chosen him.”
According to the mullahs’ constitution, the clerical regime’s Assembly of Experts chooses the so-called Supreme Leader, currently Ali Khamenei, who was chosen by the members of the organ after the mullahs’ first Supreme Leader Khomeini died in 1988. At the time, regime officials revised their constitution by dropping the criterion of “religious authority” for choosing a leader.
Dastgheib criticized members of the mullahs’ Assembly of Experts, saying, “Currently, the assembly is not in agreement with its true nature, because first, the Council of Guardians, whose members are selected by the Leader, select the members of the assembly. I have said on many occasions that this is a vicious circle.”
“Secondly, it is necessary for [Khamenei’s] religious authority to be confirmed by the pure sources of emulation, and this has not happened yet,” he added.
