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Ayatollah "
Akbar Hasehmi Rafsanjani Bahramani"(AHRB!), known as Rafsanjani, the former president of Iran and the head of of the
expediency discernment council (an arbitration committee to resolve disputes between
parliament and the the
council of guardians of iran) is going to run for the upcoming presidency election of iran. by now rafsanjani tops the ranking of pre-election polls by surpassing
Galibaf (left-conservative, representative of moderate conservatives ),
Moein (right-liberal, representative of former lefts) ,
Larijani (right-conservative, representative of religious right),
Tavakkoli and
Ahmadinezhad (representatives of religious-left) and
Velayati (representative of moderate right-conservatives).
"Akabr HRB"; the cleric of technocracy leads the pre-election polls!
After the Revolution of 79, Rafsanjani who first was an advocate of "Islamic economics (moderate left)", gradually and during a 10 years process, was brainwashed by a group of liberal elites known as "technocrats". it seems that the late chairman of central bank of Iran, Dr.
Mohsen Nourbakhsh has been the primary and principal hijacker of Rafsanjani's brain. Afterwards, these technocrats who are the guardians of liberal economics and often hold a doctorate degree in economics and related arenas, beside a group of liberal politicans like
Mohajerani and
Karbaschi , and a bunch of political lizards like
Nobakht and
Najafi lunched a party named "Kargozaran". Kargozaran insisted on liberal econo-political affairs and opposed with rightists cultural restrictions. they remade the capital and changed 14-million city of Tehran to a new modern city.
New Tehran reconstructed by Technocrats
Kargozaran has a close realtions with reformist "participation front" of iran. for example, the head of the most reformist newspaper of iran, Sharg which reflects reformists affairs is a member of Kargozaran. for another example, Masoud Nili and his colleagues like Tabibian and Asali who wrote Rafsanjani's economic plans, have near realtions with participation front. Reformists think that Rafsanjani and Kargozaran will aid them if thier nominee, Moien loses the election, else they will be erased from Iran's political arena by radical rights. overall, kargozaran which supports Rafsanjani and Rafsanjani supports it, is a liberal party, however it has been known as a "abuser party" which often makes a "rentier govt" pro its members. Iran's left-conservatives, especially Tavakkloi and his colleagues like Naderan and Khoshchehreh, often criticize them by the great inequality resulted from Kargozaran-Rafsanjani's liberal affairs dictated by Pro kargozaran reformist economists who advocate Participation front reformist party. these reformist economists sometimes are known as "the amphibians", because they constantly walk between kargozaran and participation front as well as their walking between left and right since the revolution. meantime, in the other side we see the conservative economists who advocate leftist policies that are criticized as "the hardliners who havnt enough knowledge of economics" by "kargozaran-participation" economists. Tavakkoli, Naderan and Khoshchehreh belong to the recent gruop; Amphibians vs donkeys!
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Post Script
1- Mohsen Nourbakhsh, 2-Mahdi, AHRB's son, 3-Mohammad Ali Najafi, 4-Masoud Nili, 5-Mohammad, AHRB's borther, 6-Mahdi Asalai, 7-Mohammad bagher nobakht, 8-Gholamhossein Karbaschi, 9-Hassan Dargahi, 10-Mousa Ghani nezhad, 11-Mohammad Tabibian
1-Ahmad Tavakkoli, 2-Elias Naderan, 3-Mohammad Khoshchehreh