In Iran, Environmentalists Now Seen as Spies<br />Islamic Revolution said that Anywhere we may have differences,<br />On Sunday, Mr. Rouhani struck back at his opponents, warning the Revolutionary Guards, the judiciary and the clerical councils<br />that his government is considering organizing a referendum to break the deadlock between those who want change and those who want to hold it back.<br />Farshad Ghorbanpour said that I have never seen the fight between these two factions<br />so open here in Iran, the government versus those who are nonelected,<br />12, 2018<br />TEHRAN — The increasingly bitter feud between Iran’s president<br />and hard-line commanders and clerics exploded into the open over the weekend with the arrest of a top environmental official and the prison death of a prominent Iranian-Canadian environmental activist who was arrested last month.<br />I think last month’s so-called-protests were incited<br />and encouraged by government opponents, including the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps," said Saeed Laylaz, an economist close to the government.<br />In an apparent victory for Mr. Rouhani, the minister of defense, Amir Hatami, said in January<br />that Ayatollah Khamenei had ordered both the regular army and the Revolutionary Guards to sell off economic assets to the private sector.
