digg this!According to a report by the now-banned website Rooyeh.com, Hashemi Rafsanjani, the head of the Assembly of Experts, had meetings in the city of Qom, with some of the high ranking clerics including the plenipotentiary representative of Grand Ayatollah Sistani. The dates of the meetings are not specified. Qom is the religious capital of Iran, where most Shia Grand Ayatollahs live. The Assembly of Experts is a body of senior clerics that has the power to assign and remove the Supreme Leader in Iran.
According to this report, an anonymous source claimed that Rafsanjani had reminded the Ayatollahs of how Ayatollah Khomeini managed such crises in the early days of the Islamic revolution. The source also claimed that half of the Assembly of Experts were supporting the idea of declaring a “leadership counsel” (instead of a one person leadership). He said, “the brief summary of these meetings is that at this time the most reasonable solution is the resignation of President Ahmadinejad,” and added, “the Supreme Leader is the spiritual father to all the people and not solely to a special group; however, it seems that Ayatollah Khamenei has chosen to be the latter.” The source deferred to answer whether the Assembly will soon hold a special session in Qom.
