While the US government is controlled by the super wealthy class that constitutes about one percent of its population, Iran is controlled by a few Islamic clerics, their relatives, and cronies who came to power following the Iranian revolution in1979. The popularly elected president in Iran has much less power than the clerics who control the Islamic regime. The five Larijani brothers are a part of the clerical oligarchy in Iran; two of them Ali and Sadeqh respectively head the legislative and the Judiciary branches of the government; the third brother Javad Larijani is the head of a human rights council; the fourth brother Bagher Larijani has held various po sts in the government; and the fifth brother Fazel Larijani was a diplomat. Ali Larijani has at least 20 members of his family including two cousins and a brother in -law in the Iran’s parliament backing him. [1] Larijani brothers have very good relations with London and Washington. Their friendly family relations with the British go back to 1920s when the British were ruling Iraq and their friendship has continued to the present time. [2 Corruption in the Islamic Republic is nothing new; what was unprecedented was its revelation at a high level on the floor of the Iranian parliament by the President of the Islamic Republic. On February 3, 2013, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad dropped a bombshell that shook the citadel of Iran’s clerical oligarchy. He played a video tape in the Iranian parliament that tied the heads of two branches of the government, the legislative and judiciary, to a documented financial corruption case related to the Larijani brothers. It was revealed to the public that Fazel Larijani is using his brothers’ influence to benefit from the state lucrative projects and receives kickbacks and bribes. The news has been widely reported and there is no need to describe it here (for example see New York Times). Read more :
Posted on: Sun, 27 Jul 2014 12:36:26 +0000
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