WHY ARE THE IRGC COMMANDERS DYING?...
52-year-old General Vafa Ghaffarian, the Chairman of the
Governing
Board of Iranian Communication Organization and one of the
important
commanders of the IRGC Electronic Warfare and Defense
Department died
of illness last week. 52-year-old Abbas Mehri, a teaching
staff member
of Imam Hussein University that feeds the IRGC and one of
the former
senior commanders died of cerebral hemorrhage recently.
55-year-old
Ahmad Seyafzadeh, the rector of the IRGC Supreme University
died of
heart attack. 50-year-old Mansour Torkan, one of the former
commanders
of the IRGC and the chairman of the governing board of the
construction company called “Yademan Saze” subordinate to
Tehran
Municipality died of heart attack three days before. Don’t
you think
it is strange that IRGC commanders die one after another?..
One
wonders whether those commanders were murdered because they
criticized
the regime and Khamenei?..
The great strife occurring within the IRGC does not remain
concealed.
Sardar Hussein Alai, one of the IRGC commanders wrote a
letter to
Khamanei recently. In his letter Alai “criticized Khamenei’s
attitude
towards the Green Movement and condemned that Regular Police
forces
responded to the objections of the people with opening
fire.” The fact
that one of the senior IRGC commanders makes such criticisms
indicates
clearly how much the rift within the regime has deepened.
This attitude of Sardar Alai has been harshly criticized by
pro-Khamenei IRGC commanders and even Alai’s house has been
raided by
the Besij forces. However, the support provided by the
officers within
the body of IRGC, war veterans and martyrs’ families has
indicated
that Sardar Alai is not alone in this cause.
Together with the developments that occurred in recent
years, the role
assigned to the IRGC “to repress the public and to shoot
bullets at
the public” has greatly damaged the IRGC revolutionist and
populist
image. Today, large majority of the Iranian public considers
the IRGC
as “a big mafia with political, commercial and military arms
that is
far from revolution, war and moral values. When the IRGC is
mentioned,
what comes to the mind of public is alcohol, drugs, fuel
smuggling,
Covered Market, being the shareholder of large factories,
monopoly of
all the national resources ranging from oil to forests. The
IRGC has
to capture political structure, then judiciary and the
assembly so as
to protect this economic monopoly. Thus, to create a war
psychology
over the country is the first stage of reaching this
political
monopoly.
Today the public thinks about the IRGC and its commanders in
the
abovementioned way. It is apparent that a group within the
IRGC has
girded its loins so as to break this monopoly; moreover,
this group is
also supported by many people…
