Tehran, YJC. Ayatollah Lankarani’s son says his father used to expect a time when Ahmadinejad would oppose the Supreme Leader.
Mohammadjavad
Fazel Lankarani, the son of the late Ayatollah Fazel Lankarani, said in a
meeting with members of Hassan Rouhani's campaign staff in Qom "My father once
said to Messrs. Yazdi and Jannati ‘This guy who argues five Marjas will be sure
to stand up to the leader. If the Ahmadinejad administration continues it will
lay waste Imam Khomeini’s struggles,’” Mehr News Agency reports.
He added
"My late father from the beginning of the Ahmadinejad administration told the
Ayatollahs ‘These folks talk of relations with the twelfth Imam, they want to
say they are in contact with him themselves. They do not want you people to go
after the Imam.’”
Lankarani
then expressed happiness for the election of Rouhani and said "I am informed
that many of the grand figures of the Howza [seminary of Islamic schools] had
an eye for him. Some of the gentlemen even regarded him as the paragon of
presidency.’”
He asserted
"An important aftermath of this welcome political breakthrough was to defuse
the plan to weaken the clergy. These guys tried 8 years to divert people from
the clergy, but God willed it so that people would choose an accomplished
clergyman.”
"We
must pray for Mr. Rouhani and his colleagues. A country in debt with $150,000
billion will be difficult to set right,” Lankarani said.