The Islamic Republic’s far-right political party has long suspected that Iran’s top officials have “surrendered” to the United States by signing the Memorandum of Understanding.
The Paydari Front, sometimes referred to as the “Super Revolutionaries,” believes itself to be the “guardians of the values of the 1979 revolution,” and holds key positions behind the national broadcaster, IRIB.
The hardliners have further accused Iran’s leadership – namely President Masoud Pezeshkian, Iranian top diplomat Abbas Araghchi, and chief negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf – of using Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei’s absence to launch a “soft coup” against parliament and its ideals.
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In the days before former supreme leader Ali Khamenei’s funeral, Paydari Front party member Mahmoud Nabavian called on regime loyalists to “raise the banner of vengeance for his blood and stand firm against the coup” in a statement on social media.
According to Nabavian and the Endurance Front, Pezeshkian and the public-facing leaders of Iran have been using the new supreme leader’s absence – as Mojtaba himself has not been seen in public since the war broke out on February 28 – to disobey orders and take power for themselves.
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“Mojtaba’s continued absence means that they don’t have access to him and also that Ghalibaf and allies are effectively in charge of the country… the ultra-hardliners have thus accused Ghalibaf and Pezeshkian of plotting a ‘coup’ against Mojtaba,” Arash Azizi, a US-based Iran expert, told CNN.
“They are trying to elevate the role of the Supreme Council for National Security while diminishing the role of the supreme leader and parliament,” Paydari Front member Kamran Ghazanfari accused in a statement earlier this month. At a public gathering in Tehran, Ghazanfari further stated that Ghalibaf intentionally ignored “three specific instructions not to enter negotiations over nuclear matters.”
Iranian lawmaker Kamran Ghazanfari said on Friday that Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf ignored three specific instructions from Iran’s Supreme Leader to keep nuclear issues out of negotiations, speaking at a public gathering in a Tehran square.
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“Those instructions were given on April 4, April 18 and in early May. Yet Ghalibaf claims that he follows and obeys the Supreme Leader, but his actions were inconsistent with that,” he said, according to Iran International.
Iran’s radical regime did not die with Ali Khamenei
Ghalibaf in particular has been trying to “sideline” the hardliners, Hamidreza Azizi, a visiting fellow at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, told CNN.
“They are too costly for the system, and they’re bringing their rivalries out in the open especially as the situation in Iran becomes unstable.”
Despite US President Donald Trump’s belief that the new leaders of Iran are “far less radicalized” than the previous, the continued infighting between Tehran’s parliament and those leading the country paints a different picture.
The supporters of the Islamic Regime’s 1979 ideals are very much present and will not be silent regarding the regime’s actions with the United States, and despite their small numbers, the hardliners reflect a significant portion of the Iranian people that aren’t on board with their leadership’s diplomatic approach.
