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2009-06-24 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Iran's clerics considering removal of Khamenei and Ahmadinejad

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Posted by Anonymoose 2009-06-24 00:57|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iran

#1 Oh look, they're reshuffling the deck chairs!

Posted by gorb 2009-06-24 01:29|| 2009-06-24 01:29|| Front Page Top

#2 This is a BFD if true.

Sistani consulting with Rafsanjani to pop A'jad and Khamenei and adjust the system of clerical control. Even if its rearranging deck chairs after a contrived crisis over a bogus 'election', it means the rearanging is guided from Karbala, not Qom. I'll take that.

Also, once the door is opened we have seen that reforms can progress out of control even when the reforms are intended to preserve an totalitarian system, not destroy it.

Posted by JAB 2009-06-24 02:26|| 2009-06-24 02:26|| Front Page Top

#3 IRG will comment in a moment.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-06-24 03:30|| 2009-06-24 03:30|| Front Page Top

#4 Was that a blink? Yes, I think the powers that be blinked.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2009-06-24 04:55|| 2009-06-24 04:55|| Front Page Top

#5 I hope this is true but wont hold my breath!

Short round and Khamenei need to be got rid of ideally from 20k feet!

Posted by paul2 2009-06-24 05:30|| 2009-06-24 05:30|| Front Page Top

#6 If this happens, watch for Obama to unjustifiably take credit for it, with the full assistance of the infotainment and education industries. They'll be manufacturing the narrative as they go.

Can't happen? In terms of factual history, it was a weak, dissembling JFK meeting with Kruschev that emboldened the Soviets to place missiles in Cuba. The world barely escaped nuclear war as a result.

What do the Democrat-controlled history texts teach instead? That Kennedy was brilliant in "defusing" the Cuban missile crisis and that on that basis alone he was a great president. This assessment has, of course, no basis in reality.

But most Americans, if they've heard of the Cuban missile crisis, believe the lie that it was resolved by the great JFK, instead of knowing the truth that it was precipitated by his incompetence and inexperience.

Look for the education and "news" industries to start pushing a similar meme for what happens in Iran. NPR is doing it already, with your tax dollars.

Posted by no mo uro 2009-06-24 05:53|| 2009-06-24 05:53|| Front Page Top

#7 Of course it's due to Obama - why, he made a speech in Cairo!

Posted by Spot">Spot 2009-06-24 08:25|| 2009-06-24 08:25|| Front Page Top

#8 This looks like an echo report from the rumor over the weekend. I'm guessing no new news, just a rumor sanitized into "news" by Fleet Street clowns.

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2009-06-24 10:05|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2009-06-24 10:05|| Front Page Top

#9 The Iranian system is modelled on the Soviet communist system. The Assembly of Experts is the equivalent of the Central Committee. The Supreme Leader being the General Secretary.

As in the Soviet Union, the Assembly of Experts is nominally in charge. In practice the Supreme Leader becomes a de facto dictator or at least leader for life.

The Soviet Central Committee only ever dismissed one General Secretary I recall and that was Khruschev for being too reformist. But who knows with Iran.

Posted by Phil_B 2009-06-24 11:05|| 2009-06-24 11:05|| Front Page Top

#10 This looks like an echo report from the rumor over the weekend. I'm guessing no new news, just a rumor sanitized into "news" by Fleet Street clowns.

Actually it appeared in the June 21st edition of a Saudi newspaper. So if it's an fabrication, it's a Saudi one.

Posted by Pappy 2009-06-24 12:02|| 2009-06-24 12:02|| Front Page Top

#11 Mullahs join the protesters this weekend.

Posted by Lagom 2009-06-24 12:40|| 2009-06-24 12:40|| Front Page Top

#12 it would be interesting to see some mullahs executed by other mullahs

sort of a revolution eats its children kind of thing

Posted by lord garth 2009-06-24 13:19|| 2009-06-24 13:19|| Front Page Top

#13 Pappy, I didn't call it a fabrication, I called it a rumor. It could be true, I hope it is. And that Gulf Arab report from the weekend was the rumor I was talking about, although I could have sworn I saw it first in one of Ledeen's crap-I've-heard-today rumor-dumps on the Corner.

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2009-06-24 16:27|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2009-06-24 16:27|| Front Page Top

#14 When Fleet Street reported it, the general- consenus-commentary immediately labeled it a Saudi fabrication. Hence my remark.

Posted by Pappy 2009-06-24 17:43|| 2009-06-24 17:43|| Front Page Top

#15 But, Ahmadinejad controls the pampered bureaucracy, while Khamenei controls hundreds of mosques and madrasas. It is impossible to force a democratic-revolution anywhere in the world, when the US President is unsympathetic to same.

Posted by Eohippus Spavitle1705 2009-06-24 18:52|| 2009-06-24 18:52|| Front Page Top

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