Supreme Leader’s Military Advisor: We Cannot Stage a Coup

Hossein Dehqan, military advisor to the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic, has stated that in this country “a coup cannot be staged” while alluding to concerns about the military coming to power in Iran, adding that conditions are not such that “military officials would sideline others and replace them with their chosen candidate.”

He, who himself became a candidate in the presidential election, said in an interview published on Tuesday, March 10 by ISNA news agency, that while expressing concern about the possibility of “organized” military action to “seize a political position,” he stated that “in Iran, on the threshold of entering a new century, there is no possibility of militarism and the imposition of military rule.”

In addition to Hossein Dehqan, Saeed Mohammad, commander of the Khatam al-Anbia Headquarters of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, also announced his candidacy in the 1400 presidential election two days ago by resigning from his position.

In the media, the names of figures such as Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, Ali Larijani, Parviz Fatah, Mehrdad Bazrpash, and Mohsen Rezaei, who all have military and Revolutionary Guard backgrounds, are also appearing in the list of candidates for the 1400 presidential election.

In his conversation with ISNA, Hossein Dehqan, while opposing existing concerns about a military figure becoming president in Iran, emphasized that “a military person’s candidacy in any election is the civic right of that individual.”

Source: Radio Farda