Following up on this report that Ahmadinejad wanted to arrest Mousavi and other top reformers, reports are coming in that Khamenei would not allow it. The newspaper Nowruz run by the top reformist party in Iran, the Islamic Iran Participation Front, reports that Khamenei thought that arresting Mosuavi would have destroyed the Islamic Republic.
Ahmadinejad on the other hand was all for the plan and wanted to round up many of the top tier reformists. Apparently Khatami was the only one who had too much national and international recognition not to arrest. Other people slated to be arrested: Mehdi Karroubi, Ayatollah Mousavi-Khoiniha, Ali Akbar Mohtashamipour, Morteza Alviri, Mohammad Reza Khatami, and and one of Rafsanjani’s children.
Obviously Khamenei does not like these people, but he is smart enough to know that arresting Mousavi and the others would have a lot of bad consequences. Ahmadinejad on the other had is clearly driven by an ideology that believes anyone who stands in his way should be eliminated.
Another thing this episode shows is that at least for the very important desicions, Khamenei is stil the one calling the shots and not Ahmadinejad.
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