Guard Leaders Afraid of Mousavi’s Threat

The personal representatives of Iran’s supreme leader in the Islamic Passdaran Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) have demanded that the “war’s black box” not be opened, saying, “It is much better if this black box is not decoded.” One such representative Ali Saeedi made these statements in a direct response to the latest warning that was issued by opposition leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi, Iran’s prime minister during the eight-year Iran-Iraq war, who had threatened to reveal the war’s “untold” stories if the “subversion of history” continued.

Speaking to the Fars news agency (affiliated with the political-security apparatus), Saeedi added, “They don’t have untold stories of how the war ended.”

As the IRGC leaders’ concern about revising the eight-year Iran-Iraq war was revealed, journalist and filmmaker Mohammad Nourizad argued in an article that today nothing was left of the IRGC that had been established after the revolution.

Nourizad, who is currently out of prison on bail, noted that “The IRGC’s return to its initial identity was impossible.” Addressing the IRGC’s current leaders, he wrote, “If you are interested in legal and illegal port access for smuggling goods, please help yourselves, take over all of the country’s northern and southern ports. Concern yourselves with that and do not touch disgraced words such as the revolution, the Imam (meaning ayatollah Khomeini), law, people’s rights, God, the Quran, Islam, the Prophet, Ali and Ali’s descendants.”

Meanwhile, seven members of the reformist Mosharekat and Mojahedin of the Islamic Revolution parties, who were imprisoned following last year’s election coup and sentenced to long prison terms, released an open letter to the heads of judiciary and military personnel’s tribunal. The letter indicted “military officers who broke the law during the tenth presidential election.”

The letter spoke openly about the “election coup” and revealed “the unlawful interference of military and security officers to make Mr. Ahmadinejad victorious in the tenth presidential election and prevent the victory of other candidates … using weapons, prisons and other police and intelligence tools.”

The letter is signed by Mohsen Aminzadeh, Mostafa Tajzadeh, Abdollah Ramezanzadeh, Feizollah Arabsorkhi, Mohsen Safaei-Farahani, Mohsen Mirdamadi and Behzad Navavi.

The authors based their claims on an audio file in which commander Moshfegh, the intelligence chief at the IRGC’s Sarallah base, unleashes massive accusations against various reformist and green movement figures.

Sarallah is an IRGC base in charge of the Tehran’s security. The base’s commander is, in effect, Tehran’s military chief. In times of crisis, the Sarallah base can take over Tehran’s day-to-day security with the passage of a Supreme National Security Council resolution and the supreme leader’s approval.