Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to resign - Arab TV

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to resign - Arab TV

"Arab TV is reporting that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been asked to resign by the supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei. This is breaking news so we will provide updates as and when we receive them.

The following is being reported by Politically Illustrated -

Without the support of Mr. Khamenei the president has no legitimacy.

“Mr. Ahmadinejad and his aides were caught invoking powers to further their policies,” Mohamad Jafar, a college student in Tehran, told Politically Illustrated. “People here don’t know exactly what is going on, but there is speculation that Mr. Ahmadinejad and his chief of staff, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, were arrested.”

According to Mr. Jafar, a power struggle developed between the two Iranian leaders after Mr. Khamenei reinstated an intelligence chief."


http://www.indiareloaded.tv/article/iranian-president-mahmoud-ahmadinejad-resign-arab-tv?sms_ss=twitter&at_xt=4dc381d1bfcd28d0,0

No bombing necessary.

If it changes.

The President of Iran has funneled large amounts of money into the Revolutionary Guard.
If he decides to stay they may back him over the ayatollah

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Ol' Maddie never had any real power to begin with. The Ayatollah has always been the power in Iran. This is more like changing the window dressings.

I totally agree.

:wow:

:shrug:

I'm thinking no.

PB

Close allies of Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, have been accused of using supernatural powers to further his policies amid an increasingly bitter power struggle between him and the country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Several people said to be close to the president and his chief of staff, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, have been arrested in recent days and charged with being "magicians" and invoking djinns (spirits).

Ayandeh, an Iranian news website, described one of the arrested men, Abbas Ghaffari, as "a man with special skills in metaphysics and connections with the unknown worlds".

The arrests come amid a growing rift between Ahmadinejad and Khamenei which has prompted several MPs to call for the president to be impeached.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/05/ahmadinejad-allies-charged-with-sorcery

but interesting.... I watch with great intent.

there is no other mention of this that I can find on Iranian news pages or any other reputable source..

Thanks!

when a twitter provides a link, then it can be worth following.

But, there are several articles on the public feud that the Ayatollah and Ahmedinjad are having. Including Ahmedinjad on an 11-day walk-out, whatever that means, and the arrest of his chief of staff and other close allies.

that matter, however, is really long-standing and I don't see that coming to a head at this time; the establishment has not been comfortable with Ahmadinejad since about Day 3 of his first term. Besides the Leader--who is really a weak puppet (much like the Presidency is meant to be, before Khatami made an international darling of the seat, and Ahmadinejad made it a domestic nuisance to the "upper 1%"), a really pale shadow of Imam Khumayni(RA)--there are two main pillars of opposition from the (so-called "conservative", though this term is somewhat inappropriate in actuality) islamic republican contigent: Ayat.Rafsanjani, representing the interests of the "upper 1%" in the area, expected all that populist economics talk to be mere talk, and has strongly opposed him in the last few years; secondly, Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani, who more closely represents what a more effective manner of rule the forces around the Leader would like to see. Larijani will probably be a future President, though he really carries more power in his present state.

to be interesting in light of the very recent seizure of Bin Ladin's hard drives, with their possible treasure trove of donor and co-conspirator information.

Was Mr. A on the list, and the mullahs have been told, and perhaps do not want Iran to become the next Afghanistan?

If we are lucky, the mullahs will give him a dose of sharia law and burn him at the stake, or the Iranian equivalent.

that DinnerJacket does not want - and the cleric has told him to shut up or resign.

Congratulations! You're insane.

He is a dangerous man full of hate, and needs to NOT be the President of Iran or anyplace else.

same article

http://www.ayandeh.nu/pageKhabar.php?news_id=7188

With note Mojtaba Zvalnvr, successor to the supreme leader's representative in the Corps Mahmoud Ahmadinejad about his need to obey Ayatollah Khamenei, Mohammad Taghi Mesbah Yazdi emphasized that if presidents are not appointed leader of "idolatrous" and obey them "forbidden" is.

Mr. Zvalnvr, today 13 May (the third of May) in a speech in Qom, the president's remarks about the relationship "father and son" between him and Ayatollah Khamenei's "deviant" and said: "relating to Leader Imam and is related Mamvm; this relationship and Mta-abiding is what these words mean that my relationship with the leadership of filiation is? "

Before the board meeting two days ago the Iranian government with the presence of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President Ezzatollah Zarghami Radio - state television announced that Mr. Ahmadinejad has said his "enemies of the Iranian people understand the filiation of the supreme leader and president incapable and weak ".

Mr. Zarghami while President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad went to see the 11 days of his absence in his office and he passed during this period, attending two meetings of the cabinet had refused.

Face-Off
What caused a recent spat between Ahmadinejad and Khamenei?
Abbas Milani May 6, 2011

A long simmering rift between Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Ali Khamenei, the country’s Supreme Leader, has finally boiled over. For the last two weeks, the two leaders have been locked in a public battle over Ahmadinejad’s decision to fire his minister of intelligence, a close ally of Khamenei. And, in spite of indications in the last few days that a compromise has been reached—not to mention Khamenei’s repeated pleas that factional feuds be kept out of the media lest the dispute embolden foes and dishearten friends—acrimonious attacks by both sides have continued apace. Regardless of how the crisis is resolved, one thing is clear: The confrontation marks a splintering of the once healthy alliance between the two leaders—and a serious blow to unity within the Iranian regime.

http://www.tnr.com/article/world/87975/mahmoud-ahmadinejad-ali-khamenei-iran

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/05/20115155428631352.html

Serious differences have emerged within Iran's top leadership, media reports suggest, pitting Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president, against Aytollah Ali Khamenei, the country’s supreme leader.

Ahmadinejad has boycotted cabinet meetings since Heider Moslehi, the intelligence minister, was reinstated after he was forced out of the government.

Moslehi was restored to the powerful post by Khamenei after Ahmadinejad had forced him to resign on April 17.

Ahmadinejad's opponents, meanwhile, have seized the opportunity.

According to the Shargh newspaper, a group of 216 lawmakers, more than two-third of the 290 members in the Iranian parliament, have issued a letter to Ahmadinejad, urging him to call off his cabinet boycott for the good of the country.

from the mullahs.

of what little I'm able to understand and deduce, it seems that the primary issue here is that dinner jacket has become a little too independent from the mullahs and more prone to trust his own judgement in governance than the edicts from on high. He wants the ayatollah's chief spy out of his cabinet.

There's no chance of his successor being more rational or independent. The ayatollah wants a puppet who lacks opinions and follows direct orders; the ayatollah will get what he wants because he always does, he's the supreme leader.

will be characterized as a suicidal maniac with a nuclear death wish and the sole authority to use that power.

The usual predominance of the ayatollah would naturally be challenged by the front man with the reins of suppressive power, especially with the likes of Mr. A. In my uninformed viewpoint it would seem natural that pressure would lead to cracks in this form of government. The Soviets also had power struggles that left the government intact whether there were changes for the nation or not. Hugo Chavez also is pressure influenced by pretty constant US hostility into forever siding with the enemies of his enemy and the ensuing bad behavior. Obama is under constant economic pressure(per GOP plan) and has great difficulty leaning to the normal(incrementalist) Dem planks over the capitalism abyss.

Meanwhile populations have actually overthrown a government or two while the games at the top play the musical chair game.

Interesting times. Can the human race actually succumb to an outbreak of sanity if that is in the mess somewhere?

I hope the new stooge has one CLOSE.

~blink~

Poor Ahmadablahblah (as Colbert would say). Got a big head and got smacked down by the real power in Iran.

Hopefully this will lead to a fracturing of the Iranian government and a chance for pro-democracy reformers to jump into the gap.

Last Modified: 06 May 2011 14:38

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/05/201156113955925329.html

A political dispute between Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the country's supreme leader is reported to have intensified.

Ahmadinejad is said to be contemplating resigning after Heidar Moslehi, the intelligence minister he had sacked, was reinstated by Khamenei.

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Al Jazeera's Dorsa Jabari in Tehran quoted an MP as saying that Ahmadinejad had asked the supreme leader to step down as he insists he cannot work with the intelligence minister.