"While defending Ayatollah Khamenei's support of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the 2009 election, Zolnour said that the``nezam""( system) was interrogating elements of the``deviant current""."
zolnour indicated that the president's right-hand man esfandiar rahim-mashai was the head of this deviant current and that the guardian council would reject him as a presidential candidate in 2013.