No mis­take made in the title above. Many news ana­lysts con­nect the Iran­ian occu­pa­tion of Iraq’s Al-Fakka oil well, to the pro-Iran Shi­ites party’s lead­ers, such as Al-Hakim, Al-Sadr …etc, (or even Maliki), but peo­ple for­get who is run­ning Iran’s pol­icy right now.

So, who are they?

Iraqis with Iran­ian family-name deported to Iran by the Baath Party in 1979, lack of trust made Aya­tol­lah Khome­ini to reject all the attempt to appoint those Iraqis in reli­gious or polit­i­cal positions.

After the death of Khome­ini, the Iraqi depor­tees gained the con­fi­dence of Khamenei. As a spir­i­tual leader he allowed them to take over key posi­tions in the Iran­ian gov­ern­ment, and to become the most pow­er­ful group within the rul­ing author­ity in Iran.

The Lar­i­jani brothers

Lar­i­jani broth­ers born in Iraq, stud­ied in Najaf schools before Iraq deported their father the late Aya­tol­lah Al-Mirza Hasjim Ardeshir Amili.

- Ali Lar­i­jani was an advi­sor of the Rev­o­lu­tion Intel­li­gence dur­ing the Iraq-Iran years, recently he is the head of the Iran­ian Shura Coun­cil (parliament).

- Muham­mad Sad­diq Lar­i­jani, is head of the Judi­ciary Council.

- Moham­mad Jawad Lar­i­jani, deputy for­eign min­is­ter and later deputy of the Judi­ciary Coun­cil (his brother).

- Moham­mad Baqer Lar­i­jani is the dean of the Fac­ulty of Medicine.

- Mohammed Fad­hil lar­i­jani, cul­tural advi­sor in the Iran­ian embassy in Canada.

Shahrudi

His first posi­tion in Iran was a mem­ber of the Coun­cil of the Con­sti­tu­tion Guardians appointed by Aya­tol­lah Khamenei, Shahrudi become the head of the judi­cial sys­tem for ten years. Later he is become a mem­ber of the Supreme Cler­ics Assem­bly and the Coun­cil of the Con­sti­tu­tion Guardians again.

Born in Iraq, where he stud­ied and joined the reli­gious Hawza in Najaf. Mah­moud Al-Hashemi (later to adopt the name Shahrudi) was among the depor­tees from Iraq to Iran in 1979, because of his polit­i­cal activ­i­ties and sup­port of the Imam Khomeini.

After appoint­ing the late Aya­tol­lah Aya­tol­lah Mohammed Baqer Al-Hakim as the head of the Islamic Supreme Coun­cil (SIIC), Al-Hashemi to become the council’s spokesman.

Naqdi

Brigadier Gen­eral Moham­mad Reza Naqdi, appointed by Aya­tol­lah Khamenei, as leader of the (Basij) despite his bad rep­u­ta­tion, accused by the reformists of com­mit­ting crimes against their lead­ers, well known in Iran with his “cre­ative” tor­ture methods.

Expelled from Iraq after one year of the rev­o­lu­tion in Iran, the depor­tees office gave his fam­ily a house in the Kur­dish city Naqd north­west of Iran (to become his fam­ily name later). He vol­un­teered in the fight­ing unit of the Supreme Coun­cil for Islamic Rev­o­lu­tion in Iraq.

The Iran­ian intel­li­gence warned the Supreme Coun­cil of the assign­ing secu­rity tasks to Naqdi after reports say that he is one of the depor­tees coop­er­ate with the Iraqi army intel­li­gence, but Naqdi climbed the chain of com­mand very fast in the intel­li­gence unite of the Supreme Coun­cil to become com­man­der of the intel­li­gence of the Coun­cil in the north­ern front.

There are many oth­ers, such as Ali Mohammed Al-Taskhiri, Ahmed Mous­sawi, and the sec­ond gen­er­a­tion, the sons of the above who are in diplo­matic and intel­li­gence posts.