TEHRAN: Iran's hardline former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad referred to as for the immediate conserving of free presidential and parliamentary elections in a letter to ultimate chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei revealed on Thursday.
The name from a man, whose name is synonymous with the bloody repression of mass protests towards his debatable re-election in 2009, marked a brand new act of defiance towards a political status quo that has long since became towards him.
Ahmadinejad made no explicit reference in his letter to a wave of unrest that swept Iran over the new year but it surely comes as the country's divided political factions argue over methods to respond.
"The immediate holding of free presidential and parliamentary elections -- of course without their being engineered by the Guardian Council and without interference by military or security bodies so that people have a free choice -- is an urgent necessity," he wrote.
The Guardian Council is an impressive vetting body which oversees all elections in Iran and which barred Ahmadinejad amongst others from working for president closing May.
The former president referred directly to a speech Khamenei delivered on Sunday in which he mentioned that progress was needed in "the field of justice", acknowledging standard grievance of the system.
"These clear comments from the leader can of course be understood" as an attraction for "urgent and concrete reforms that meet the demands of the people," he mentioned.
Ahmadinejad referred to as for the dismissal of judiciary chief Ayatollah Sadeq Larijani, a rival hardliner, at the grounds that the "injustices" of the judiciary were "one of the main causes of public discontent."
He also referred to as for the release of all other people arrested for criticising the regime and the halting of any lawsuits under method.
Ahmadinejad stays popular, in particular amongst poorer segments of society who recall the large-scale welfare schemes he carried out during his 2005-2013 presidency.
But he has fallen out with the status quo, especially since he ran for president closing year towards Khamenei's advice.
Plenty of his senior aides were arrested on financial and corruption charges, and his protege Hamid Baghaie was sentenced to 15 years in December.
The demonstrations over the new year, during which a minimum of 25 other people died, initially fascinated with economic issues however all of a sudden escalated into protests towards corruption and the regime itself.
During the 2009 protests towards Ahmadinejad's re-election, dozens of other people were killed as the regime deployed armed forces to back up police.
Thousands of other people were detained and his two reformist challengers -- Mehdi Karoubi and Mir Hossein Mousavi -- remain under area arrest.
The name from a man, whose name is synonymous with the bloody repression of mass protests towards his debatable re-election in 2009, marked a brand new act of defiance towards a political status quo that has long since became towards him.
Ahmadinejad made no explicit reference in his letter to a wave of unrest that swept Iran over the new year but it surely comes as the country's divided political factions argue over methods to respond.
"The immediate holding of free presidential and parliamentary elections -- of course without their being engineered by the Guardian Council and without interference by military or security bodies so that people have a free choice -- is an urgent necessity," he wrote.
The Guardian Council is an impressive vetting body which oversees all elections in Iran and which barred Ahmadinejad amongst others from working for president closing May.
The former president referred directly to a speech Khamenei delivered on Sunday in which he mentioned that progress was needed in "the field of justice", acknowledging standard grievance of the system.
"These clear comments from the leader can of course be understood" as an attraction for "urgent and concrete reforms that meet the demands of the people," he mentioned.
Ahmadinejad referred to as for the dismissal of judiciary chief Ayatollah Sadeq Larijani, a rival hardliner, at the grounds that the "injustices" of the judiciary were "one of the main causes of public discontent."
He also referred to as for the release of all other people arrested for criticising the regime and the halting of any lawsuits under method.
Ahmadinejad stays popular, in particular amongst poorer segments of society who recall the large-scale welfare schemes he carried out during his 2005-2013 presidency.
But he has fallen out with the status quo, especially since he ran for president closing year towards Khamenei's advice.
Plenty of his senior aides were arrested on financial and corruption charges, and his protege Hamid Baghaie was sentenced to 15 years in December.
The demonstrations over the new year, during which a minimum of 25 other people died, initially fascinated with economic issues however all of a sudden escalated into protests towards corruption and the regime itself.
During the 2009 protests towards Ahmadinejad's re-election, dozens of other people were killed as the regime deployed armed forces to back up police.
Thousands of other people were detained and his two reformist challengers -- Mehdi Karoubi and Mir Hossein Mousavi -- remain under area arrest.
Iran's Ahmadinejad calls for immediate free elections
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