Iran In Turmoil As President's Purge Deepens

The Guardian (UK) ^ | 11-18-2005 | Simon Tisdall/Ewen MacAskill

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Iran in turmoil as president's purge deepens

Simon Tisdall and Ewen MacAskill
Friday November 18, 2005
The Guardian (UK)

Iran is facing political paralysis as its newly elected president purges government institutions, bringing accusations that he is undertaking a coup d'état. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's clearout of his opponents began last month but is more sweeping than previously understood and has reached almost every branch of government, the Guardian has learned. Dozens of deputy ministers have been sacked this month in several government departments, as well the heads of the state insurance and privatisation organisations. Last week, seven state bank presidents were dismissed in what an Iranian source described as "a coup d'état".

[goldfinch]

How are the libs going to spin this? Wait until Iran nukes Israel and then say 'oops!"

No, sadly, they won't. They will say it is Israel's fault. And then they will find a way to blame the USA. The Blame America First crowd believes the USA is the source of all evil and they will twist any event to fit their twisted view of the world.

[Pikamax]

This is the guy that Chuck Hagel wanted America to kiss up too.

[nopardons]

Oh oh...this is a dangerous situation made worse.

[roses of sharon]

Bingo! My main mantra on FR since I joined years ago.

The leftists in NY and DC elite "press" are political operatives, and have been for decades.

The run this country, our policies, our politicos, our culture, our education, our judiciary, our moods, our opinions, they write and rewrite our history.

The SAME so-called journalists have done this for decades, their power is enormous, they ruin lives, livelihoods, careers, families and businesses.

And with the BBC have allowed the Islamic cults to roam the globe for decades, murdering innocents with impunity, all the while painting them as victims of a political process in which they had no seat.

All wrong, deliberately wrong, and deadly wrong.

How much longer will we allow them to write the script of the United States of America?

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"How much longer will we allow them to write the script of the United States of America?"

As long as we fund them by buying their publications.

[Billthedrill]

The mullahs put a hard man in the chair thinking they could control him. It's an age-old mistake - the Reichstag thought it could control Hitler. And it's compounded by his perfectly justifiable belief that it was he and his who put them in office in 1979.

Will China tolerate and protect an aggressive despot in return for a guarantee of oil? Absolutely. Will Russia and the EU forgo commercial interests in the pursuit of regional peace? Absolutely not.

I'd love to be wrong about this but I think it's likely that Ahmadinejad will put a tight little police state in place before any revolution can begin. He certainly has a good start - the basij for storm troopers and a well-developed intelligence network that has thoroughly infiltrated the dissidents. Should an untimely accident happen to Rafsanjani we'll know. Should the latter suddenly change his tune we'll know as well.

[XEHRpa]

> Dozens of deputy ministers have been sacked this month in several government departments,

Why do I get the impression that "sacked" means something entirely different in Islamic societies like Iran?

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"I think it's likely that Ahmadinejad will put a tight little police state in place before any revolution can begin. "

I'm worried you're correct. And, with the way the Dems are stampeding to 'surrender' I expect we will have little influence there. Iran will get their nukes, just watch.

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Why do I get the impression that "sacked" means something entirely different in Islamic societies like Iran?

One way is to get officially dis-approved before competing in Iranian elections in the first place. This was [the] moment the system really started to crack up... Admittedly [the] precise moment is open to debate because the Islamic Republic was born ideologically bankrupt.

The Letter the Iranian Government Doesn’t Want You to Read

As published in Shargh (reformist), Tehran, Iran, Feb. 18, 2004 - Members of the Iranian legislative assembly, or Majlis, restrain conservative legislator Ghodratollah Alikhani (in the turban) from striking reformist legislator Reza Yussefian (off camera) at the opening session of the new Majlis, Feb. 23, 2004 (Photo: Atta Kenare/AFP-Getty Images).

On Feb. 18, 2004, in the immediate run up to the controversial Iranian legislative elections, two reformist Iranian newspapers, Yas-e no and Shargh, published an open letter to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei signed by 70 reformist legislators who had resigned to protest a decree forbidding more than half of the candidates from running. The next day, the Tehran prosecutor’s office ordered the papers closed. Criticising the supreme leader is a criminal offence in Iran...

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This link works... The Letter the Iranian Government Doesn’t Want You to Read

[XEHRpa]

Re: definition of "sacked":

> One way is to get officially dis-approved before competing in Iranian elections in the first place.

For some reason, I can't believe the Iranian government will leave it at that. Those disapproved candidates are an underground opposition just waiting to happen. Best to dispatch them promptly is the meme, I would imagine.