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Deviant current
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<p>The "deviant current" or "current of deviation" is a term used by Iranian officials (e.g. high-ranking clerics, <a href="/facts/Revolutionary_Guards/6EMxlKlm">Revolutionary Guards</a> commanders) and <a href="/facts/Iranian_Principlists/pTyQqaqa">conservative</a> rivals of <a href="/facts/Mahmoud_Ahmadinejad/fxJWaqE6">Mahmoud Ahmadinejad</a> to describe Ahmadinejad's entourage, which functions like a <a href="/facts/Political_faction/hkjthBgz">faction</a> or <a href="/facts/Political_party/IAKw7oEK">party</a>. Ahmadinejad had some tendency toward <a href="/facts/Iranian_nationalism/WRvFhXpH">Iranian nationalism</a> that deviated from the clerics' theocratic rule, hence top clerics labeled the faction associated with him as "deviant current". </p><p>The term was coined in 2011, after an open conflict between Ahmadinejad and the Supreme leader <a href="/facts/Ali_Khamenei/NcL1YHPS">Ali Khamenei</a>. </p>