Have been trying to get handle on the whole fracas about Ahamdinejad's first VP pick, Esfandiar Rahim-Mashaie. Mashaie (aka Mashayi) isn't considered hard-line enough and he said some not completely hateful things about Israelis so the Khamenei gang and their frowning allies want him fired.
Ahmadinejad wants to anger hardliners NOW? Is it to distract people from what's going on in the streets and prisons? Is it a genuine power struggle between AN and Khamenei? Is it all just sheer stupidity? Insights?
It's just a matter of time before this regime falls. The question of course is how many more innocents will be tortured and murdered before this tinpot dictatorship flees the capital one step ahead of the angry mob. Iran deserves so so so much better than these Keystone clerics and their thuggish enforcers. It's just a crime that this great culture has been held hostage by these mentally deficient bullies for so long.
The same story has a good quote from Mousavi about the "elite's" dissatisfaction with the regime, and this might answer the question I had earlier about the Republican Guard, because quite a few of the IRG are technocrats, managers, and other members of the "elites," (which apparently has a less incendiary meaning in Iran than in America). Surely the Guard's interests would be better served by a strong republic with good trade and foreign relations, and one that promotes its people's talents instead of suppressing them and killing them.
Elsewhere on Ayatollah Watch... more influential Ayats join the reformists.
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