As associates of Ahmadinejad’s administration continue their assaults on veteran politician Hashemi Rafsanjani and his family, Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) deputy for intelligence Hassan Taeb, who was previously the head of the Basij militia, accused Mehdi Hashemi of “launching a house of corruption in 1994 and 1995”. Officials of the Islamic republic categorize a house of corruption when people from both sexes co-mingle or hold a party. Prior to the June presidential elections, Taeb seldom made news but as he engaged in harsh crackdown methods against those who protested the final official results of the elections, his name is now routinely mentioned by the public.