The very system of an unelected Supreme Leader ruling the country with the help of an elected president of his choice is being challenged.
By Sultan Shahin
23 June 2009
FACES OF REVOLUTION: Objective observers have characterised the election results as nothing short of a coup d'état by Ayatollah Khamenei (right) and Ahmadinejad
It may take weeks or months or even years, but one thing is certain: the unravelling of Iran's Islamic revolution has begun: there will be no return to the status quo. Both the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stand diminished and their capacity to deal with the world as much as with their own people inexorably weakened. What began as a protest over suspected rigging of the elections that are supposed to have re-elected Ahmadinejad as president for another term has now metastasized into a challenge to the very system of an unelected Vilayet-i-Faqih (supreme jurist or leader) ruling the country with the help of a president elected by people from among the choices approved by the Supreme Leader himself.
http://newageislam.com/iran--unravelling-of-a-revolution/islam-and-politics/d/1534
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