TEHRAN – Habibollah Askar-Oladi, the Followers of Imam and Leadership Front secretary general, has called for keeping a tight rein on extremist actions in the country.

“Today it is important not to allow the extremists to change the national scene into a battlefield,” he said.
He also dismissed views that the country is in a special situation.
Since the early days of the revolution, once in a while some hostile groups who have been trying to derail the Islamic system’s path and “the current situation is similar” to them, the senior conservative figure commented.
On Mir-Hossein Mousavi’s controversial statement, he said that some media outlets claimed that Mousavi’s statement has been drafted by American agents which is a example of “extremism.”
On the other hand, Mohsen Rezaii in his letter to the Supreme Leader has gone too far as “nowhere in Mousavi’s statement an about-face is seen,” he noted.
It is the obligation of all people to stand up against extremism, he added.
Mousavi, former presidential candidate, issued a statement on January 1 and suggested five proposals to calm down the situation in the country; then on the same day Rezaii, Expediency Council Secretary, sent a letter to the Supreme Leader and described the proposals as noteworthy for consideration.
The statement and the letter met with widespread approving and disapproving reactions by many political activists.
Elsewhere in his remarks, Askar-Oladi praised the recent demonstrations staged by people across the country to condemn disrespect to religious sanctities, saying people took to the streets spontaneously to express support for the velayat-e faqih (rule by the supreme jurisprudent).
Although some people are “resentful” over the June presidential election results, the country is not in a crisis, he opined.
He also urged the Judiciary to implement Islamic law in cases of those who disrespected Imam Hussein (AS) on Ashura day (the day marking the martyrdom anniversary of the third Shia Imam)