Iran: Rafsanjani's Coded Call for Removal of Ahmadinejad? (Iran Dispatch)

Iran Dispatch picks up on an interesting entry on former President Hashemi Rafsanjani's website:

Is this talking about the impeachment of President Ahmadinejad?

“Diversion of the president was clear, but still it were people who paid the price. the constitution had solution for the diversion of the president: Dismissal.”

This is the top line of the latest update on Hashemi Rafsanjiani’s official site.

Despite appearances, these words do not refer to Ahmadinejad. They are a part of Hashemi’s memoir, published "randomly" on his site, referring to Abolhassan Banisadr, the first President of Iran who was dismissed by the Parliament and fled the country to escape possible trial.

But publication of such posts are not as random as it has been claimed. Hashemi, as a circumspect politician, has used this technique to announce his ideas about the issues when expressing them directly and publicly might put his positions ---as the head of the Assembly of Experts and chairman of Expediency Discernment Council --- in danger.

About a year ago when the tension between Hashemi and Ayatollah Khamenei, the Supreme Leader was at its highest, Hashemi published a part of his memoir about his role in introducing and appointing Khamenei as the successor of Ayatollah Khomeini. Many interpreted it as a pretentious display of power and political rank.

Now it seems that Hashemi, politically known as Ahmadinejad’s enemy, is putting a solution to Iran’s crisis in front of Khamenei: “Dismiss Ahmadinejad to save the country.”