A year after the election of ultra-conservative President Ebrahim Raissi, the Islamic Republic is intensifying its operation to clean up business circles favorable to its reformist predecessors, who had benefited from relays within the administration.
“We are witnessing a purge in business, many people are questioned
, confides an observer who returns from Tehran.
I know about ten who went through the prison box, a week, a fortnight or a month.
The interrogations are carried out by the intelligence services of the Revolutionary Guards, the elite unit responsible for protecting the regime, which reports to the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the holder of the main powers in Iran.
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Even before the presidential election last year and to secure the succession of Ali Khamenei, 83 years old and in fragile health, the Revolutionary Guards had "purified" the cogs of the administration, dominated for ten years by their reforming adversaries…
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