Nader Karami

During his last speech on the Majlis floor, lawmaker Akbar Alami criticized the Guardian ‎Council and the Islamic Republic’s supreme leader. ‎

The reformist representative from Tabriz noted that “the supreme leader is equal to others ‎in the eyes of law, meaning that, in proportion to their powers, the supreme leader and his ‎appointees are responsible to the people and must answer for their actions.” Alami ‎added, “According to Article 111 of the Constitution, if the supreme leader is unable to ‎observe his legal duties or comes to lack any of the characteristic mentioned in Articles 5 ‎and 109 of the Constitution, he is by default demoted and removed from his position.” ‎

In his speech, Alami portrayed Ayatollah Janati, head of the Guardian Council, as ‎someone whose “son was a member of the Mojahedin-e Khalgh Organization [MKO] and ‎killed in 1360 [1982] during skirmishes with the Revolutionary Guards, and whose ‎daughter in law, after fleeing the country, continues to occupy a high-ranking position in ‎the Organization.” Alami concluded that such a person “is not allowed…to accuse ‎children of the revolution and country of infidelity.” ‎

In another part of his speech, Alami said, “the fate of any bad and unjust government is to ‎be overthrown.” ‎

He then recalled the widespread executions following the French Revolution, and ‎referred to the Guardian Council as the “Guillotine Council,” adding, “history will be a ‎witness that if, in the French Revolution, Robespierre Danton, who insisted on the ‎original ideals of the revolution and liberty, was handed over to the Guillotine Council so ‎that the cruel blades of the Guillotine would cut off his head from his body as an anti-‎revolutionary, it seems as if today, the Guardian Council and its open and hiding ‎supporters, have taken over the responsibility to drive the genuine revolutionary forces ‎who insist on creating the desired regime out of the scene by accusing them of being anti-‎Islam and against the regime.” ‎

It must be noted that Alami has received three separate summonses from the judiciary for ‎his recent remarks. ‎