IRAN: Khamenei issues directive to curb regime’s internal crisis during sham elections

 

supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, issued a directive to the heads of the clerical regime’s three branches and also Rafsanjani about the elections. This directive contains 18 paragraphs but the most important part of it is paragraph 16, in which Khamenei prohibited military, intelligence and security forces from entering “political and electoral divisions.”

Paragraph 16 outlines the conditions for elections and asserts “Prohibition on entry of the Armed Forces and three branches, including ministries and their subordinate agencies, intelligence agencies and security organizations, government institutions and companies, and public institutions in the elections’ political and factional divides and advocacy for the election candidates.”