Iranian Hardliners Chant Against Ahmadinejad at Friday Prayers
Posted by Jim Hoft on Saturday, May 7, 2011, 9:32 AM
Power Struggle in Iran–
Iranian hardliners chanted against Mahmoud Ahmadinejad yesterday at Friday prayers.
Ayatollah Khamenei loyalists chanted “Death to opponents of the Supreme Leader” yesterday at Friday prayers.
The New York Times reported:
The unprecedented power struggle between the two most powerful leaders in Iran deepened Friday, spilling out into Tehran’s public prayers where the mullah leading the service indirectly criticized President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad while the crowd chanted “Death to opponents of the supreme leader!”
The split started about two weeks ago after the president tried to dismiss the head of the intelligence ministry, the powerful government branch that exerts widespread control over domestic life. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader, ordered that the minister, Heydar Moslehi, keep the post.
Mr. Ahmadinejad then stayed home for 11 days, according to reports from Iran, engaging in a visible fit of pique that threatened to undermine the staunch alliance the two had forged since Mr. Ahmadinejad was first elected president in 2005.
The spat dragged into the open several factional fights, analysts said, particularly the efforts by Mr. Ahmadinejad’s conservative opponents to prevent his faction from dominating the parliamentary elections next March and even the presidential vote in 2013.
Even before the chants at Friday Prayer, a signature event since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, important conservative factions had pronounced their support for the supreme leader, including the government’s primary enforcers, the Revolutionary Guards. Ayatollah Khamenei’s infallibility was the subject of Friday Prayer in at least half a dozen large cities besides Tehran, according to media reports.
“It is quite astounding in a way where on a daily basis people are coming out and saying that Khamenei has the constitutional right and the religious right to do what he wants to do,” said Farideh Farhi, an Iran expert at the University of Hawaii. “Ahmadinejad has effectively lost the support of the base. If you do not have the support of Khamenei, you are nobody.”
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Published May 23, 2012 at 4:57 am - 64 Comments
Sickofobama commented:
So Mahmoud Ahmadinejad isn’t a hardliner?
The one who wants to wipe out the Jews?
I don’t understand anything anymore.
Chisum commented:
Off with his head!
As if AJ wasn’t short enough already.
a former democrat commented:
what is scary is that the hardliners in Iran don’t think Ahmandinjah is not a hardliner.
And these people have enough sway to kick out the ajh-nut and put in someone who is even more of an extreme nutjob.
archer52 commented:
http://truthandcommonsense.com/2011/05/06/something-to-keep-an-eye-on-internal-political-war-raging-inside-iran-involving-sorcery/
I caught this the other day. Something is amiss with Iran. I almost feel sorry for anyone trying to deal with it. From the post.
“In essence we are dealing with a nation run by two centers of power. One group is stuck in the ninth century and believes in magic, the other wants nuclear weapons so they can start a war and prompt the mystical return of a prophet as a sign of end times and the coming dominance of Islam across the known (or what will be left of the known) world. In a way, I feel sorry for any administration trying to deal with this kind of mindset set. Can you imagine being an elite, going to Harvard, studying geo-political matter, getting a degree, getting hired by the government and being handed this file as your first assignment? You’re under thirty and staring at an impossible task. Nothing on your PS3 or talked about in your sixties left over professor’s class prepared you for this.
If they didn’t drink, they do now!”
mg4us commented:
Scary. . . more so with the idiot-n-thief in the WH. . . definitely above Obama’s pay grade to deal with this situation. . .
bg commented:
++
i put this in “the whole world is a stage”category..
because it’s also not the first time they’ve
put on an “Itoldyah v Amadjerkoff”show..
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daryl commented:
If Achmedenijad knows what’s good for him he’ll stfu, quit playing hooky
and get back to work badmouthing the west and Israel. Pos is acting like that bunch of Wisconsin dimocrats.
Doubt seriously if they’d even bother to bathe his remains before they dump his stinking beheaded a$$ to Charlie tuna and the sharks.
Picture of the Day – ” Fishfood May Contain Traces of Lead”
http://thefivetowns.info/picture-of-the-day/15710-picture-of-the-day-q-fishfood-may-contain-traces-of-leadq.html
greenfairie commented:
That explains the bizarre roundup of supposed magicians and sorcerers working for Ahmadinejad, as though he hired Hogswarts graduates.
chris commented:
Why would anyone pay for the lack of news presented under the guise of elitist all-allknowingness?
I red the piece and it is basically a second hand gossip article with sly references to all sorts of things to make it appear you are getting the real dope.
For my money, I am almost always going to bet on the guy they call “Supreme Leader” over his hand picked stooge.
I hope the Iranians throw them both down a frigging weel and let them search for their soggy little super-imam.
Andreas K. commented:
Curious what nutjob they’ll pick to replace him.
Tjexcite commented:
Missing work is normal when you have to travel down the well to meet with the Mahdi.
The Supreme leader is having second thought about the Mahdi as he will lose power when they launch to bring the Mahdi happens. Ahmadnejad has now power to maintain and his only goal is the return of the Mahdi.