Publication for the first time / Hashemi: Mr. Khoeiniha, they used to say that when we have a clergy, what do we want to do?

Sheikh Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani in a meeting with clerics in 2011:

Who was the first person to form a party after the revolution? Weren't we? Personally, I went to the Imam and proved that the party was necessary and we formed it, but again the Imam pulled down the wick.

Those who are part of the so-called leftist and radical forces today, such as Mr. Khoeiniha, used to say, "When we have a clergyman, what do we want to do with the party?"

Around the Imam, they told him so much that they asked for our Imam, and we went with Mr. Khamenei, they wanted to dissolve the party, and we told him not to dissolve it, to pull the wick down, maybe later we would have to raise it again.