Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was speaking in the southern city when an agent of the paramilitary Bassij spoke out against him, creating an embarrassing moment for the mullahs’ president on live state-run TV.
Prior to the speech, one of the members of the regime’s Assembly of Experts, a representative of the regime’s Supreme Leader and two other mullahs had left the scene in protest.
According to state-run news agencies, mullah Imani, a representative of the mullahs’ Supreme Leader, Seyyed Ali Dastgheib, a member of the Assembly of Experts, mullah Mohammad Mehdi Dasgheib, and mullah Zebarjad left the speech by using a musical performance as an excuse to protest.