The Wall Street Journal: The Rafsanjani and Khomeini families rejected Shamkhani’s request to calm the situation on the streets.
The Wall Street Journal reported that Ali Shamkhani, the Secretary of Iran’s National Security Council, secretly asked the Rafsanjani and Khomeini families to help calm the situation on the streets as nationwide protests escalated last month.
According to the report, Mr. Shamkhani told representatives of these two families that some of the freedoms sought by the protesters would be granted if they helped.
However, the newspaper wrote that these two families rejected the request from the Secretary of the National Security Council.
Iran Gate has exclusively published a special report on Shamkhani. One of the articles related to this topic was published under the following title:
Corruptions of the Shamkhani family under the protection of the Supreme National Security Council
