In an interview with Khabar Online, the brother of the influential cleric, Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi, Chairman of the Expediency Council Head of the Assembly of Experts indicated to the ambiguities in compiling the general policies of election law. He also rejected an allegation that the Council is to dispose of the Guardian Council's monitoring task over the elections.
"We have nothing to do with some claims on the issue. As the supreme leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ali Khamenei referred the issue to the Expediency Council, no such accusations can be made against us. I don't believe the role of the Guardian Council is to be downplayed. On the other hand we are not responsible to analyze such claims and answer to the challengers of the plan.
In an editorial published Saturday this week, the hard-line newspaper Kayhan which firmly backs Iranian government announced that the plan is to be studied by the Expediency Council is what earlier called National Commission on Elections plan seeking to weaken the role played by the Guardian Council in election procedures.
Hashemi further elaborated that the council has observed the plan based on its normal practice and is to outline new policies for the elections: "Time is right for considering the issue and remove all ambiguities related to that," he added.
Latest presidential vote in Iran on June 12 led to unrest after two candidates, Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mahdi Karroubi declared that widespread irregularities occurred in the election.
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