are more dangerous than “seditionists.” Seditionist is the term applied to the green movement that protested the outcome of the 2009 presidential election. Deviationist is the term for those people linked very closely to President Ahmadi-nejad’s chief of staff, Esfandiar Rahim-Mashai. Mesbah-Yazdi, once classified as the spiritual guide to the president, now seems to have split completely from Ahmadi-nejad.