Islamic Republic government offices to identify "elements of sedition"

Lotfollah Forouzandeh

Lotfollah Forouzandeh, Deputy Chief of Management and Human Power Development of Islamic Republic’s President’s Office announced that the “elements of sedition” must be identified in government offices.

Mehr news agency reports that Forouzandeh claims that in the past year, “elements of sedition” have been “creating weblogs, working less and creating problems” in the executive offices of the government.

The government official told a meeting of Tehran Provincial executives and managers that the executive branch should become intolerable for “elements of sedition and those who are not shouldering their job responsibilities.”

Ahmadinejad supporters and Islamic Republic hardliners have been using the term “elements of sedition” to describe the opposition who have accused the government of vote fraud in the presidential elections of 2009 which returned Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to another term at the presidency.