Saturday, 21 November 2009

"Everyone is crossing the regime's red lines," says IRGC commander, warning clampdowns

NCRI - A senior commander of the Iranian regime’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has said that in currently everyone in Iran is violating the regime’s red lines, according to the state-run Fars News Agency on Thursday. Javad Maleki pointed to the humiliation and discrediting of the authority of the clerical regime’s Supreme Leader, saying that people have violated all “sanctities” and “have broken all taboos.”

Maleki, the IRGC’s Deputy in Isfahan, added, “After the June 12 elections, some people violated all sanctities across the nation and the ruling system under empty pretexts. … These people sought to breach the revolution’s red lines and, as they themselves claim, they were breaking taboos, the consequences of which are clear today across the nation. Anyone at any social gathering or location now allows themselves to breach the red lines established by the regime, the revolution as well as all of the sanctities.”

The IRGC official also signalled worries about persistent anti-regime protests in the country’s university campuses, and said, “Today, the enemy has turned universities for us into places where pious youth are supposed to be assimilated. These are Islamic universities in an Islamic country, but despite of that, a young pious member of Bassij cannot protest against such actions and professors.”

“By chanting the slogans that these misled individuals and the students following them are chanting, they are stepping over the established red lines. They shout ‘Neither the East nor the West,’ and have gone beyond Imam Khomeini who used to say ‘Islamic Republic, not a word more and not a word less.’”

The IRGC commander went on to say, “Today, the well-known enemies of the Islamic Republic have joined together and use Ahmadinejad and the June 12 elections as a pretext to harm the revolution.”

Maleki also issued a clear threat, saying, “In view of the fact that we have organs like the Army, the IRGC, the Bassij, the State Security Forces, and the Judiciary at our disposal, we must not allow a bunch of people to do whatever they please against the revolution and the regime. We must seriously confront them.”

Photo: Nov. 4, 2009 - Tehran residents showed their hatred and anger against the regime in its entirety by bringing down picture of the regime’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, kicking and walking on it.