Iranian power struggle between president and supreme leader sees arrests
and claims of undue influence of chief of staff
Here is yet another article
demonstrating the 6th century backwaters of Islam. Despite the angry words of Islam’s western apologists
(CAIR etc); Islam
strongly believes in sorcery, magicians (wizards), and jinn (Genies).
As much as has been made of the
Salem Witch Trials (That occurred centuries ago) as a tool to slur the whole of
Christianity; here we have the highest religious leaders of Islam falsely invoking charges of “Witchcraft” so as to
maintain their reign of fear and political control in Iran, right now here today. In a matter of days 25 people associated with
Ahmadineajad have been falsely accused of witchcraft,
have been arrested and imprisoned with threats of death by these evil Mullahs. In Islam the common people live in great fear
of their Imams, Muffis, Mullah’s and Clerics – as one word from these can mean death, torture,
and imprisonment.
As evil as Ahmadineajad
and his government are, -- here all eyes plainly see Islam’s highest religious leader’s mask of spirituality, holiness,
and righteousness, crumble to dust, revealing the religion’s ugly, evil, power-hungry,
lying, deceiving, and murderous leaders – that will stop at nothing to maintain
their control of Iran’s political system.
Saeed Kamali Dehghan
guardian.co.uk
Thursday 5 May 2011
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his chief of staff, Esfandiar
Rahim Mashaei, who is
described as 'the actual president of Iran' by allies of the country's supreme
leader.
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.
On Sunday, Ahmadinejad
returned to his office after an 11-day walkout in an apparent protest over Khamenei's reinstatement of the intelligence minister, who
the president had initiallyasked to resign.
Ahmadinejad's unprecedented disobedience prompted harsh
criticism from conservatives who warned that he might face the fate of
Ayatollah Mesbah
Yazdi, a hardline cleric
close to Khamenei, warned that disobeying the supreme leader – who has the
ultimate power in
Ahmadinejad has so far declined to officially back Khamenei's ruling over Heydar Moslehi, the minister at the centre of the row. In the
first cabinet meeting since the president returned, Moslehi
was absent.
Khamenei's supporters believe that the top-level
confrontation stems from the increasing influence of Mashaei,
an opponent of greater involvement of clerics in politics, who is being groomed
by Ahmadinejad as a possible successor.
But the feud has taken a
metaphysical turn following the release of an Iranian documentary alleging the
imminent return of the Hidden Imam Mahdi – the
revered saviour of Shia
Islam, whose reappearance is anticipated by believers in a manner comparable to
that with which Christian fundamentalists anticipate the second coming of
Jesus.
Conservative clerics, who say
that the Mahdi's return cannot be predicted, have
accused a "deviant current" within the president's inner circle,
including Mashaei, of being responsible for the film.
Ahmadinejad's obsession
with the hidden imam is well known. He often refers to him in his speeches
and in 2009 said that he had documentary evidence that the
Since Ahmadinejad's return this
week, at least 25 people, who are believed to be close to Mashaei,
have been arrested. Among
them is Abbas Amirifar,
head of the government's cultural committee and some journalists of Mashaei's recently launched newspaper, Haft-e-Sobh.
On Saturday, Mojtaba
Zolnour, Khamenei's deputy
representative in the powerful Revolutionary Guard, said: "Today Mashaei is the actual president. Mr
Ahmadinejad has held on to a decaying rope by relying
on Mashaei."