Hooshang - Asadi

opinion article
September 11, 2009
On the Eve of the Second Coup
Hoshang AsadiMir-Hossein Mousavi’s 12th statement presents the most accurate picture of last week’s events through in the briefest words: “Iranian people! It is completely clear that your efforts to return the country to normality will not be met with a reasonable response. Dangerous days are ahead. The arrest of some individuals such as Dr Beheshti herald even more grave events to come.”

The people’s choice for the presidency probably has more accurate information on the sate of the country, but the events of last week certainly portray dangerous days to come. Everything seems to point to the possibility that the coup perpetrators have prepared themselves to take full control through another coup that would alter the balance of power. They will take action before the million man march on Ghods day (commemorating Palestine) and the first day of school and remove the source of the problems, as they see them.

The Shiite Taliban who have been advancing their creeping coup through Russian methods, believed that their planned coup would take them to their goal and thus remove the obstacles on the way to imposing their Islamic republic. Some of the goals of this state, i.e. another cultural revolution and the altering of all school textbooks to be based on the views of Mesbah Yazdi - which are now clearly closely tied to those of ayatollah Khamenei - were revealed last week.

The blatant declaration that “regime means just one person” (a reminiscent of the French emperor Louis XIV’s l’Etat, ce Moi), and in the words of ayatollah Montazeri “they openly say that only one person matters,” the remarks of Passdaran’s chief commander general Ali Fazli, and those of Tehran province’s Passdaran commander, all translate into a “battle” for the leader of the Islamic regime. This battle has not been won or complete yet and Fazli describes it in these words, “We have just put a unique crisis behind us. We hear rumors in our educational centers for which we must unite in a manner that our Lord expects us to . We must be vigilant and take appropriate action in this regard.”

Lord is a new title bestowed on ayatollah Khamenei who is now elevated to the level of Imam Ali, a leading Shiite saint. These words clearly indicate that the direction and outlook that the regime is taking, i.e. looking back to the days of the glory of Islam rather than the future as expressed by the Shiite Taliban.

Ayatollah Mahdavi Kani, who spoke after a long silence, calls on the leaders of the regime to reconcile their differences, in the same manner suggested by Mir-Hossein Mousavi, reminding the reader of the peace that Imam Hassan and the Moavieh clan made in the early days of Islam. But Khamenei, regardless of whether he is the Imam Hassan or the Moavieh seems bent on destroying Mousavi and Karoubi.

As expressed by Nowruz website, those who expressed their belief in the ‘hard days ahead’, under the command of the leader of the state, are in fact responding to the harsh complaints of ayatollah Golpaygani, and in fact barring him from interfering in the affairs of the state.

One can now see that the changes that took place recently at the judiciary branch of the state were in fact done to solidify all the forces in preparation for the upcoming coup.

Sadegh Larijani’s use of the word “illusionary” to describe the electoral fraud that took place since June 12, and the continuation of other coup activities on orders of Mortezavi’s successor are only the initial measures in this direction.

Coup perpetrators, who have nothing other than arms and torture as their tools, but who use ‘the legal net’ to justify their crimes, shut more outlets and voices during last week. Ghadr prayers were cancelled and no commemorations were possible on the anniversary of ayatollah Taleghani’s death.

Furthermore, ayatollah Beheshti’s son too was arrested last week. Both events signaled the end of Khomeini’s era and the Islamic republic that he founded which now was neither Islamic nor a republic.

Prior to this, totalitarian fascists - a term coined by Khatami - had arrested Karoubi’s son and shut his website and party offices. These coup perpetrators are looking for documents to show that the CIA had issued, but to which Mousavi responded in his 11th statement. Such documents will be produced through fabrication, and the rumors that are circulating these days will materialize: the arrest of Mousavi and Karoubi. This reality was something that some political personalities outside Iran heard was “imminent”.

Confirmed reports too indicate that Mousavi is aware of this. Karoubi and Khatami had said prior to this that they were willing to pay any price but would not retreat from their positions and demands.

Mousavi’s latest statement repeats what Karoubi and Khatami have said but even goes further to say that the efforts of the coup organizers will fail.

In this statement, Mousavi says that by arresting Beheshti, the public is asking how the regime is treated the dignity of the flag bearers of the Islamic republic, i.e. Dr Beheshti senior who was a key advisor to Khomeini and activist for the Islamic republic but was killed. He says that those planning the coup will fail, but hard days lie ahead.

He concludes his statement by saying that the arrest of Mousavi and Karoubi will only be the beginning and not the end of affairs. The beginning of a new round of the civil movement in Iran. The statement concludes: “The nation of Iran cannot be arrested; and nobody can chain freedom. We shall maintain our cool and unity in the difficult days ahead. The attack by coup perpetrators is because of fear. We shall win.”