Three weeks into the sensational revelations made by Abbas Palizdar a member of the ‎Majlis assembly’s Judicial Inquiry and Review committee about the corruption of senior ‎clerics in the Islamic Republic of Iran and leaders of the conservative pro-government ‎groups, the exposés still takes a toll. The latest quiver came in the form of the dismissal ‎of the Iran’s state inspector general and the court summons of Hassan Kamran, a member ‎of the Majlis and the head of the very committee that Palizdar once sat on. ‎

The head of the Legal committee of the leadership of the Majlis assembly responded to ‎the summons and said, “No summons has been issued by the Majlis leadership to ‎Messers Kamran and Dehgan, and will not be issued.” Mohsen Koohkan, the ‎spokesperson for the leadership of the assembly also responded to the summons and ‎accused the court of taking an illegal action, adding, “The summoning a member of the ‎Judicial Inquiry and Review committee disrupts the legal proceedings of the case.”‎

In his interviews over the last 2 days, and one that was nationally broadcast on the state ‎television network, Hassan Kamran expressly accused the judiciary of engaging in ‎political games and countering the recent accusations, summons, interrogations and house ‎searches that were directed against Fatemeh Ajorloo, another member of Majlis’ Judicial ‎Inquiry and Review committee, calling the acts an illogical response of the judiciary.‎

In conjunction with the unofficial publication of the arrest of Hassan Kamran on the ‎Internet, the Iranian media published official versions of the dismissal of Mohammad ‎Niazi, the chief inspector general of Iran. While the media reported Niazi’s dismissal as ‎the “end of his term”, and reported that he had been demoted to the position of deputy ‎inspector general, but, as Tabnak website close to the inner circles of the Iranian regime ‎reported, nobody doubts Niazi’s sudden dismissal is not linked to Palizdar’s case.‎

Tabnak commented that the reason for Niazi’s dismissal was the reopening of the case ‎against Abbas Palizdar and the heightening of the differences between the heads of the ‎three branches of government in Iran. ‎

Mohsen Ghaeminasab, the director of the office of the head of Iran’s Inspector General ‎who is also the head of the PR bureau was arrested a few days after the arrest of Palizdar ‎on charges of complicity and conspiracy with Palizdar and the unauthorized transfer of ‎classified documents. Officials of the Inspectorate General’s office have categorically ‎denied the charges against Ghaeminasab and have defended his activities to be in line ‎with his official duties.‎