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'Magical Thinking'? Top Iranian Politician Claims Sorcerers, Genies Influence Some State DecisionsRFE
https://www.rferl.org/Genies, sorcerers, and exorcists are back in the Iranian political debate a decade after then-President Mahmud Ahmadinejad's associates were accused of practicing witchcraft and summoning supernatural creatures, claims that he denied.
The debate about the alleged influence of sorcerers and clairvoyants on state officials was renewed this week when a member of the powerful Expediency Council -- a body that advises Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei -- said some Iranian politicians have consulted with people who claim to be able to summon genies.
Ahmad Tavakoli made the claims last weekend in a story published on the news site Alef.ir, in which he said genies and fortune-tellers have been involved in “mysterious, inefficient, and corrupt” decisions by "some officials and dignitaries."
According to Islamic mythology and Iranian folklore, genies live in a parallel world and possess extraordinary powers, including the ability to take different shapes and forms.
Ahmad Tavakoli said his comments were only “the tip of the iceberg.”Tavakoli said several cases of politicians involved in such things are being investigated by the anti-corruption group Justice and Transparency Watch, which he heads.
Tavakoli’s comments followed a controversial claim by Tehran’s interim Friday Prayers leader, Ayatollah Kazem Seddiqi, who said in a television interview in early January that a deceased cleric, Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi, a spiritual father of hard-liners, had “opened his eyes and smiled kindly” while undergoing the ritual washing of his body before his burial.
The claim by Seddiqi, who quoted the person who had washed Mesbah's body, was met with criticism and mockery, including by those who accused the cleric of attempting to take advantage of people’s beliefs and others who said jokingly that Ayatollah Mesbah must have been buried alive.
Ayatollah Mesbah YazdiSeddiqi later said the person who performed the bathing ritual on Mesbah -- who died on January 2 at the age of 86 -- may have imagined the incident. Seddiqi expressed shame for repeating the claim.
In his piece, Tavakoli named Mesbah’s body washer, Reza Matlabi Kashani, and said he is “a [major] investor who has many financial ambiguities” and ties to “senior officials and prominent clerics.”
Tavakoli said the rich businessman performs the washing ritual on the dead bodies of prominent clerics at his house.
His claims were met with criticism by hard-liners, including by a former lawmaker who blasted him for suggesting that a man who had been accused of financial fraud had washed the body of “master” Mesbah, a claim the son of the cleric denied.
Others said Tavakoli’s revelations highlighted the state of affairs in the Islamic republic where many elderly clerics with outdated ideas and no special expertise sit in powerful bodies.
In a commentary published online, former reformist lawmaker Dariush Ghanbari said Tavakoli’s remarks showed that educated Iranians do not have much of a say in the country’s affairs.
“University graduates are missing from the decisions and management of the country’s affairs," Ghanbadi wrote, warning that ultimately Iranians pay the price of such “unscientific practices.”
"We’re witnessing people with magical thinking making decisions,” he said.
Tavakoli later said his comments were only “the tip of the iceberg.”
Belief in genies, which has origins in Islamic mythology and Iranian folklore, is widespread in some segments of society whose members consult about important life decisions with people claiming to be in contact with an unseen world.
Accusations of Iranian politicians contacting sorcerers and engaging in paranormal activities peaked under Ahmadinejad, who at one point claimed a halo of light had surrounded him during his speech at the United Nations General Assembly in 2005. He later denied the episode, which had been videotaped, while his aides said the video had been doctored by his opponents.
Ayatollah Khamenei, who has the final word on all state affairs in the Islamic republic and is deeply suspicious of the West, mentioned genies in a speech in March when he cited a Koranic verse and suggested a supernatural creature and Iran’s enemies were working together to undermine Iran.
“There are enemies from among both genies and human beings, and they help one another. The security services of many countries work together against us,” Khamenei said in remarks that raised many eyebrows.
Some media reportedly removed the genie reference from Khamenei’s comments in an effort to prevent criticism. His website later interviewed a cleric, Ayatollah Ahmad Abedi, “to clarify” the unsettling comments made by Iran's supreme leader.
But Abedi, who was introduced as a professor at seminaries and universities, not only confirmed Khamenei’s odd claim but even went a step further by accusing Israeli intelligence services of using sorcery.
“The Jews, in particular the Zionists, pursue metaphysical matters to a large extent. Their intelligence service, Mossad, undoubtedly does such things,” Abedi was quoted as saying by Khamenei.ir.
The anti-Semitic claim has been used by several extremist clerics in the past.
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Iranian Official: ‘Genies’ Influenced Recent State DecisionsBreitbart News
https://www.breitbart.com/Some Iranian politicians consulted “genies” when making recent decisions concerning state affairs, a member of Iran’s Expediency Council, which exercises supervisory powers over all branches of Iran’s government, said last weekend, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) reported on Thursday.
Genies are supernatural creatures mentioned in the Quran, Islam’s holy book. They are referenced within Islamic mythology and Iranian folklore, which hold that “genies live in a parallel world and possess extraordinary powers, including the ability to take different shapes and forms,” according to RFE/RL.
“Genies and fortune-tellers have been involved in ‘mysterious, inefficient, and corrupt’ decisions by ‘some officials and dignitaries,’” Expediency Council member Ahmad Tavakoli claimed last weekend in a story published by the Iranian news site Alef.ir. An anti-corruption watchdog operating in Iran, Justice and Transparency Watch, is currently investigating “several cases” of politicians involved in such supernatural phenomenon, Tavakoli, who founded the group, added.
Tavakoli’s claims of an otherworldly influence on Iranian politics followed shortly after a similar allegation made by Tehran’s interim Friday Prayers leader, Ayatollah Kazem Seddiqi, in early January. Seddiqi claimed in a television interview that a recently deceased Iranian cleric named Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi had “opened his eyes and smiled kindly” while undergoing a ritual cleansing of his body before burial, implying that Mesbah’s corpse had come to life after he died on January 2 at age 86. Seddiqi later admitted that the man who performed the bathing ritual on Mesbah’s corpse “may have imagined the incident,” according to RFE/RL.
In his interview with Alef.ir, Tavakoli “named Mesbah’s body washer, Reza Matlabi Kashani, and said he is ‘a [major] investor who has many financial ambiguities’ and ties to ‘senior officials and prominent clerics.'” Tavakoli claimed that Kashani performs Islamic cleansing rituals “on the dead bodies of prominent [Iranian] clerics at his house.”
Belief in genies remains widespread in some segments of Iranian society. Seeking guidance on important life or business decisions, believers in the supernatural spirits often consult self-proclaimed mediums claiming to be in touch with the genies’ unseen world. The fortune-tellers, as Tavakoli referred to them, then dispense prognostications to the believers.
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei claimed in a speech last March that genies were working in tandem with Tehran’s enemies, namely the U.S., to undermine the Islamic Republic.
“We have jinn [genies] and human enemies that help each other. The intelligence services of many countries work together against us,” Khamenei said in a speech on the occasion of the Iranian New Year.
As Iran’s supreme leader, Khamenei exercises nearly absolute control over all state affairs in Iran; he is both deeply suspicious of the West and superstitious.
During his March 2020 speech, Khamenei recounted “an incident from the early Islamic history when ‘all the enemies of the [Islamic] prophet [Muhammad] gathered together and conspired together’ to defeat the Muslims,” according to RFE/RL. The 80-year-old then spoke of the “most evil enemy of the Islamic Republic,” referring to the “Great Satan” which is Tehran’s epithet for the U.S.