This article is based on a hoax perpetrated by cherikonline. I regret my having played a role in perpetrating it.
برکناری مخالفان کودتا
گفته می شود سردار “علی فضلی” یکی از فرماندهان سپاه که اخیرا به فرماندهی سپاه سید الشهدا استان تهران برگمار شده بود، بدنبال سرپیچی از فرمان سرکوب مردم، بدستور ستاد کودتا از کار برکنار و به نقطه نامعلومی برده شده است. وی در گذشته معاون عملیات فرمانده کل سپاه پاسداران بوده است. گفته می شود علاوه بر وی، 16 فرمانده دیگر سپاه نیز در روزهای اخیر بدلیل مخالفت با سرکوب مردم، برکنار و یا به مسئولیت های غیر حساس گمارده شده اند.
It can be said that Ali Afzali, a commander of the Revolutionary Guards of the Sayyed osh-Shohada district of Tehran recently resigned. After refraining from ordering the repression of the people,he was ordered to resign by the coup d’etat’s command and was carried off to an unknown location. He had in the past been the Operations Aide to the General Command of the Revolutionary Guard Corps. It can be said that in addition to him, 16 other commanders of the Revolutionary Garyds have resigned or have been assigned to less sensitive duties over their opposition to repressing the people. Click here to see the rest of the article.Click here to hide the rest of the article.
Update: Ali Afzali has reportedly reported that eight basijis have been killed.
Now, these two reports cannot both be true, unless Ali Afzali has had a change of heart.
Most likely, both stories are bogus.
I won’t waste my time translating the latests Ali Afzali story, except the following quote:
If the key elements and agents of the appearance of the recent chaos and rioting do not wise up and continue to perpetrate criminal and counter-revolutionary which violate the country’s national security, the security forces and the basij will not hesitate to deal with them in a decisive fashion.
Guess he did have a change of heart. Or something.
(UPDATE July 3, 2009)
The July 3, 2009 Süddeutsche Zeitung reported in Rudolph Chimelli’s “Beharrlicher Widerstand”,
Among the officers, former Defense Minister Admiral Ali Shamkani and former Revolutionary Guards Commander Yahya Rahim Safavi have been labeled as sympathetic to the opposition. This has meant that over a dozen middle ranking Revolutionary Guard officers have been deprived of their previous posts. A general was allegedly transferred because he said that he would not set his men against demonstrators.
Even in the civilian nomenclature loyalties are divided. Former Foreign Minister Ali-Akbar Velajati stands without reservation with Khamene’i. His former colleague Kamal od-Din Kharazi, on the other hand, tends toward the other side. Even the head of the Iranian nuclear industry, Gholam-Reza Aqazadeh, has been labeled as tending towards the opposition. Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani and Tehran Mayor Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf are both loyal to Khamene’i, but are also known as harboring sympathy for the opposition.
(This article is not error free. It claims that one “Ayatollah Ali-Reza Beheshti” had been killed along with 81 comrades. Actually, it was Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti who was killed alongside (allegedly) 71 of his comrades. Ali-Reza Beheshti is not an ayatollah, but is the (now detained) editor of the flagship journal of Mir Hosein Musavi’s campaign, Kalameye Sabz.)
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