Khamenei Ignores Expediency Counsel and Constitution

Given the ongoing conflict between Ahmadinejad and the Majlis, Khaemenei has created a body to help resolve disputes:

Iran's top leader has appointed a mediator to resolve an ongoing dispute between the president and parliament that has also challenged his own authority.


The official IRNA news agency says Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei named his ally and former judiciary chief Ayatollah Mahmoud Shahroudi to head an arbitration body that will tackle controversies within the ruling system.

The only problem with this new body headed by Shahroudi? It completely ignores the existing Expediency Counsel and by extension its role in the Constitution which is to resolve disputes. Instead of turning to an existing body mandated by the Constitution to deal with a problem, Khamenei under his own authority simply creates a similiar body headed by his cronies.

The reason is obvious since Rafsanjani heads the Expediency Counsel and he has been marganialized for not completely falling behind Khamenei's power. This is just another example of how Iran is being run by the decrees of men and not by the letter of the law.