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Iran's Emerging Leadership Vacuum
[Jerusalem Post] - The writer is a top Iranian scientist now in exile. Recently there have been rumors that Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei is seriously ill and may die soon. Simultaneously, former president Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani, the recently elected chairman of the Experts Assembly, which has the authority to select the supreme leader, met to discuss the selection of a new supreme leader. Rafsanjani asserted that the Experts Assembly should choose the leader soon, in order to keep the regime safe and avoid a future power struggle after his death. On February 15, Hossain Marashi, Rafsanjani's confidant and brother-in-law, suggested starting an investigation of the Iranian parliament because of the damage Ahmadinejad has caused to Iran's foreign relations, exposing Ahmadinejad's political incompetence and breach of trust. The West must act now, with full force and vigor, and for the sake of world peace, and further destabilize this critically dangerous regime.