Iran's supreme leader tells Ahmadinejad: accept minister or quit

[CHIMO]

Source: guardian.co.uk

An unprecedented power struggle at the heart of the Iranian regime has intensified after it emerged that the supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, had given an ultimatum to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to accept his intervention in a cabinet appointment or resign.

A member of the Iranian parliament, Morteza Agha-Tehrani – who is described as "Ahmadinejad's moral adviser" – told a gathering of his supporters on Friday that a meeting between Ahmadinejad and Khamenei had recently taken place, in which the president was given a deadline to resign or to accept the decision of the ayatollah.

The extraordinary confrontation came to light after Ahmadinejad declined to officially support Khamenei's reinstatement of a minister whom the president had initially asked to resign.

The rift between the two men grew when the president staged an 11-day walkout in an apparent protest at Khamenei's decision. In the first cabinet meeting since ending his protest, the intelligence minister at the centre of the row, Heydar Moslehi, was absent and in the second one on Wednesday, he was reportedly asked by Ahmadinejad to leave.



Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/06/iran-supreme-leader-ahmadinejad-minister

[MasonJar]

1. Cretins!

[No Elephants]

2. Doesn't Ahmedidajob know he's supposed to be a puppet President?

I hope this will lead to the end of both their sorry careere

[JackRiddler]

4. Mockery of the name is juvenile ethnocentrism.

Do you think members of the Iranian opposition make fun of his name for sounding so foreign and funny?

[robcon]

5. Gee, JackRiddler, you never heard of Clintoon, or Kindasleezy?

Faux outrage, IMO.

[JackRiddler]

6. I avoid doing that to proper names. If I ever did, I shouldn't have.

How would people react to a derogatory play on Obama's name?

Do you not notice a higher frequency of such slurs with names that sound foreign to Americans?

Attack a person for what they do, not how their name sounds funny.

PS - "Outrage" would be a vast exaggeration. Seems like my pointing it out bothers you a lot more than the original point of contention (which I've seen a thousand times on DU and let pass every time until now) bothers me.

How about we just agree it's better not to engage in low-grade rhetoric?

[JackRiddler]

3. !!!