In Iran, Environmentalists Now Seen as Spies

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In Iran, Environmentalists Now Seen as Spies
Islamic Revolution said that Anywhere we may have differences,
On Sunday, Mr. Rouhani struck back at his opponents, warning the Revolutionary Guards, the judiciary and the clerical councils
that his government is considering organizing a referendum to break the deadlock between those who want change and those who want to hold it back.
Farshad Ghorbanpour said that I have never seen the fight between these two factions
so open here in Iran, the government versus those who are nonelected,
12, 2018
TEHRAN — The increasingly bitter feud between Iran’s president
and hard-line commanders and clerics exploded into the open over the weekend with the arrest of a top environmental official and the prison death of a prominent Iranian-Canadian environmental activist who was arrested last month.
I think last month’s so-called-protests were incited
and encouraged by government opponents, including the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps," said Saeed Laylaz, an economist close to the government.
In an apparent victory for Mr. Rouhani, the minister of defense, Amir Hatami, said in January
that Ayatollah Khamenei had ordered both the regular army and the Revolutionary Guards to sell off economic assets to the private sector.

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