According to the website Etemadelli, Ayatollah Rafsanjani is reportedly saying that if Mehdi Karroubi is arrested, he will step down from his positions on the powerful Experts Council and Expediency Council. This seems to be good news for Ahmedinejad and his allies, which have been trying to marginalize all the powerful clerics that disagree with their policies. Another reason Ahmedinejad would love to see Rafsanjani go, is that Rafsanjani is the head of the two powerful bodies mentioned above. His exit would mean leadership change in the councils. First, the Experts Council, which would probably thrust Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi into the leadership postion, Ahmedinejad’s spiritual leader and one of the main architects of the stolen election. Second, Ayatollah Jannati would probably take over the leadership of the Expediency Council. He is currently head of the powerful Guardian Council and Co-founder of the Haghani schools along with Mesbah Yazdi. This would give Ahmedinejad and company total control of the country.
The only reason Mehdi Karroubi probably hasn’t been arrested to this day, is likely this threat to resign by Rafsanjani. It has been reported elsewhere that Khamenei has issued the arrest for Karroubi a couple of weeks ago. The delay could mean that Khamenei knows if Rafsanjani leaves, many of the conservative clerics and possibly conservatives in general would separate from this government all together and that would leave Khamenei out on a limb. He would basically be impotent and be puppeted by Ahmedinejad, the Haghani’s and the IRGC. This would also leave Mesbah Yazdi as the probable successor to Khamenei, should his health take a turn for the worse, or more ominously, meet an untimely demise. The Haghani Circle would be complete. What remains unclear, is why haven’t Ahmedinejad and Co. arrested Karroubi yet, they surely want to. The answer will probably be forthcoming this week, as Qods day approaches.
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In a move to intimidate reform leaders to stand down, security officials arrested Mir Hossein Mousavi’s senior aide Alireza Beheshti. And in a separate incident, they arrested a senior aide to Mehdi Karroubi, Morteza Alviri.
The arrest of Alireza Beheshti in particular could in fact backfire on the regime. He is the son of the late Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti, a leading figure of the Revolution, one of the main architects of the Constitution and the first head of the Islamic Republics judicial system. He was assasinated along with more than 70 others when a bomb exploded at a party conference in 1981. He is revered by many in the establishment, and in particular, members of the clergy.
TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iranian authorities closed down pro-reform cleric Mehdi Karoubi’s office on Tuesday, Iranian news agency ILNA reported, and a website said one of his top aides was detained.
Concern has grown that key figures who are seen as the leaders of the opposition movement could be arrested. They include former President Mohammad Khatami, presidential candidates Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karrubi, and the head of the Assembly of Experts, Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.
Mir Hossein Mousavi has issued a new statement explaining how he envisions the future and the role that the “Green Path of Hope,” the movement that he is founding, can play in it. The strongly-worded statement accuses Ayatollah Khamenei — without naming him — and the hardliners of distorting Islam, 
violating the Constitution, destroying morality in society, and forgetting the ideals of the 1979 Revolution, the most important of which was political freedom for all.
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