Harliner takes over Revolutionary Guard

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Source: London Times

IRAN’S most powerful military commander, who masterminded the capture and subsequent release of 15 British servicemen earlier this year, was ousted yesterday as head of the Revolutionary Guards in an upheaval engineered by hardliners.

Major-General Yahya Rahim Safavi, 49, was removed from his post by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the country’s supreme leader. Mohammad Ali Jaafari, who was in charge of antiAmerican activity in Iraq, was named as his replacement.

“Regarding your valuable experience and shining background at different times, and varied responsibilities in the guards, I appoint you as the com-mander-in-chief of this revolutionary service organisation,” Khamenei told Jaafari. Safavi, who commanded the guards for 10 years, will become Khamenei’s senior adviser on armed forces affairs.

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The main reservations of the ultra-fundamentalists about Safavi were based on his opposition to the expansion of the Revolutionary Guards in economic sector of the country, his ties with reformist circles, and his efforts to coordinate the guards’ activities more closely with the generals of the regular army.

Read more: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article2369002.ece

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Isn't this interesting. The London Times (a Murdoch publication) is touting war with Iran.

The headline of this article sounds truly menacing to the U.S. but when you read to the end you find that
this guy is in place to get the independent, "loose cannon" Guard more under control. That's a way to
reign them in and preemptively meet the objections this month when they're deemed a "terrorist group."

Iran is run by some real screw balls but so are we. Now we've got the same old crew flacking for war -
Cheney - Bush, the Murdoch monsters at Fox and every entity he owns, the insane war cult here ("end of
the world types"), etc.

We're being played. Get out and do something. Join the 911 General strike, http://www.strike911.org .

Do something. This is an outrage.