Raisi's Deputy Supports Sediqi: Unjust Destruction of a Revolutionary Figure

Mohsen Mansouri, the executive deputy of Ebrahim Raisi, described the news published about Kazem Sediqi as "an unjust destruction of a revolutionary figure" and stated: "Ayatollah Sediqi is one of the revolutionary clerics of our era who has only thought of serving the people in various responsibilities." Mansouri's support for Ebrahim Raisi comes at a time when the issue of 'land grabbing' involving Sediqi and his family is still under scrutiny by domestic media. The website of the Etemad newspaper republished parts of a note that was published on the Asr Iran news site on March 18, which referenced a conversation between the Tehran Friday Prayer leader and a government television reporter regarding the claim of 'forgery of his signature' for the transfer of a 4,000-square-meter garden in his name. The note stated: "Mr. Sediqi, now that you have spoken with the media, please answer the questions from other media as well. Who was the person who went to the notary at 10:30 AM on December 10, 2023, and signed the transfer document for the garden to the institute?" The media also asked the Tehran Friday Prayer leader: "You accused the news publishers about yourself of malice and attempting to undermine people's beliefs and tarnish the image of their trusted figures. At the same time, regarding the accusations against you, you said you were accused without a court ruling. How can you accuse others without a court convicting them, but when it comes to yourself, you say there is no ruling?" Kazem Sediqi's name came to prominence after Yashar Soltani, a journalist, revealed a land-grabbing case involving the 'Imam Khomeini Seminary' and stated that the ownership of a 4,200-square-meter garden worth approximately '1 trillion tomans' had been transferred to a company owned by Kazem Sediqi and his relatives. In response to the revelation of the 1 trillion toman land-grabbing case involving himself and his sons, Kazem Sediqi initially claimed that his signature had been forged. A few days later, in an interview with a state television reporter, he referred to the issue as 'an enemy-pleasing malice' and claimed that the aim of these 'disturbances' and revelations was to discredit the people. Senior clerics of the Islamic Republic are under accusation of land grabbing; this time it is Kazem Sediqi. Sediqi called the revelation of his and his family's land grabbing a 'malice pleasing to the enemy.' The reaction of Sediqi, the Tehran Friday Prayer leader, to the exposure of the 1 trillion toman land grabbing: 'My signature was forged.' The exposure of the 1 trillion toman land grabbing by the Tehran Friday Prayer leader; the transfer of a 4,200-square-meter garden to the company of Kazem Sediqi and his sons.