Financial Mirror (Cyprus)

Signs Emerge

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We should be clear that there is still no direct evidence that a higher power had a role in directing the protests. But since the Islamic Revolution­ary Guard Corps announced on January 4 that the initial protests it blamed on Iran’s foreign enemies (America and Israel, among others) had been “defeated,” the anomalies have only multiplied. Those anomalies, culminatin­g in last week’s protests against Iranian women being legally obligated to wear the hijab, all lend credence to the theory that the initial protests in December were in fact politicall­y motivated, and that a much deeper struggle for political power in Iran is raging.

One example of this power struggle was the sudden proliferat­ion of reports last month relating to Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a former multiple-term Iranian president who died in January 2017. Shortly before the protests broke out, Rafsanjani’s daughter told E’Temed News that her father had radiation levels “ten times more than the allowed level” at the time of his death. Soon after the protests

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