Speaking to Khabar Online Sorouri who seats for Tehran in the Majlis (parliament) as a member of national security and foreign policy commission commented on the range of political factions rivaling for the upcoming parliamentary election of May 2012.
"By adopting radical methods, the seditionist current is making its best efforts to create disorder at the next majlis election. Through civil disobedience it tries to distort the image of the Islamic Republic which was inspiring for the revolutions underway in the Middle East region," he said
The the seditionist current is a title given by the most Principlists and the backers of president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to those who protested the result of the presidential election of 2009 which reinstated Ahmadinejad. That turmoil after the vote was caused when the government said it has won the election by a landslide. However protest leaders, Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mahdi Karroubi said that the election was fraudulent, damaged by widespread irregularities.
Sorouri who is also a member of Rahpouyan-e Enghelab-e Eslami (Pathfinders of the Islamic Revolution) society pointed to to those who raised the issue of fraud at the presidential election which became a point of departure for their next moves.
He divided the reformists into two radical and non-radical factions: "we second group, known radical reformists believe the sedition of June 2009 caused the reformists to change their stance as the opponents of the government to the opponents of the Islamic Republic system. Nowadays they have raised the issue of return to the frame work of IRI establishment.
Referring to the approach of Mohammad Khatami to the developments after the presidential election of June 2009, Sorouri asserted: "in the midst of sedition there were a group of reformists who didn't broke the principles and did not recourse to subversive methods. They were led by Khatami and are trying now to rejoin the establishment."
The member of national security and foreign policy commission of the Majlis stressed that reformists will run for the election under various titles: "their first plan is to propose renowned figures. If they couldn't participate at the election this way, they would introduce unknown candidates."
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