We Fell Four Years Behind

Written by admin on February 9, 2009 – 11:03 PM -

Hashemi: Leader Requested Tolerating the Administration

In an interview with the Principalist “Jomhouri Eslami” daily, former president Akbar Hashemi ‎Rafsanjani harshly blasted the Ahmadinejad Administration.‎

The head of the powerful Expediency Council emphasized that, for the past three years, the ‎Council has “tolerated the administration” to comply with the Supreme Leader’s request. This is ‎the second time that Hashemi speaks about the Supreme Leader’s request to tolerate the ‎administration. Hashemi said, “The Supreme Leader asked us to tolerate the administration. The ‎Supreme Leader’s reasoning was that this administration was not involved in devising ‎development plans and is not familiar with the policies; or that this administration has made ‎promises that it would want to implement. We have to give the administration time to ‎demonstrate its capability.” ‎

In another part of his speech dealing with the dissolution of the Management and Planning ‎Organization of Iran (an organization dating back to pre-revolution era, in charge of devising ‎long-term policy) by Ahmadinejad, Hashemi noted, “The Expediency Council and the Majlis do ‎not acknowledge the organization’s dissolution.” Hashemi concluded, “We must be serious ‎about oversight. When the laws of the Majlis are violated lawmakers must protest. Or when the ‎country’s laws are violated the judiciary must respond.”‎

Implicitly referring to Ahmadinejad’s criticisms against the Fourth Development Plan - calling it ‎a “liberalist and humanist” plan suitable for “crushing into dough” - Hashemi said, “Not only the ‎Fourth Development Plan was not implemented, but it was attacked. They even said it is suitable ‎to be crushed into dough. It was labeled liberalist and humanist. We are talking about laws ‎passed by the administration and approved by the Guardian Council, Expediency Council and the ‎Supreme Leader. But nothing was done to respond to the attacks. What guarantee is there that ‎the Fifth Development Plan would not end up with the same fate? Why have the regime’s top ‎leadership layers remained silence against such attacks?”‎

Commenting on the administrations performance since 2005, Hashemi said, “Some have ‎questioned all of our previous achievements. They even questioned our managers, and thought ‎they can stage a revolution within a revolution. You know the results.” ‎

The head of the Expediency Council also spoke about the regime’s decision during previous eras ‎to decrease the size of the government, noting that the size of the government has expanded in ‎the past four years. Hashemi added, “Even if changes start taking place now we are four years ‎behind. If the Fifth Development Plan begins we would be five years behind.” ‎

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