Leaked : Urgent and Top Secret letter by Expediency council to SL today
(As reported to me by an insider.)
Expediency council explicitly reports to SL:
- The popular uprising has started, Government & regime have nothing to counter it with.
- A massive meltdown of loyalty & trust is underway among all branches of armed forces & commanders, accelerated to catastrophic conditions among armed forces by events following Ayatollah Montazeri’s passing.
- This could lead to a total meltdown of coherence of defense capabilities at times of gravest national security threats from foreign military forces surrounding IRI entirely.
Expediency council’s demands:
- Order complete stand down of forces, transfer of coordination responsibility for national security from Sarollah IRGC Intel to Armed Forces joint intelligence task force under Expediency Council’s guidance (Rafsanjani & Rezaei.)
- Return of IRGC & Basij Resistance groups to their bases, deployment of Artesh for upholding safety of provincial areas & city police forces in cities. The suggestion to use Artesh (National Army) & City Police (Non-paramilitary) is supported by arguing that IRGC & Basij uniforms presence alone enrages masses, presence of other uniforms may not.
- No interference with people’s demonstrations & protests.
- Avoid any use of force on protesters.
- Announce immediate action plan to address people’s demands.
- Free prisoners.
- Halt persecution and prosecution.
- Create of non-partisan revision & investigation panels for election and post election events.
- Use personalities such as Khatami,Nateq Nouri,Rezaei to address people on TV to calm them down by assuring that they approve of SL’s decree & Expediency’s plan forward.
- Allocate time for opposition on nat’l media 2 make their case but in a legal&non inflamatory way,involvement of Majlis in transitional period.
- Delegate SL powers to a leadership council w/Khamenei at it’s head.
- Prepare referendum on repeat of presidential election, with Ahmadinejad stripped of his powers in transition. Alternatively, dismiss of 10th Gov by SL & formation of Presidential committee as authorized by constitution.
Expediency council sees no other way and doesn’t even guarantee 100% success of its plan, yet finds no alternative to it.
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Insider says : This letter is not by the entire Expediency Council but by its top representatives (Rafsanjani & Rezaei.) I think it could work if SL plays along. But it is unlikely.
