Posted on 11/21/2007 8:09:18 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
By Sadeq Saba
BBC Iranian affairs analyst
President Ahmadinejad has come under attack from the hardliners
In a rare attack on Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a hardline newspaper has accused him of behaving immorally towards his political rivals.
The Islamic Republic daily, close to Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, has said Mr Ahmadinejad's behaviour is dangerous for Iran.
The publication is seen as a newspaper with impeccable Islamic credentials.
The attack would be difficult to imagine without at least tacit support from Ayatollah Khamenei.
In a hard-hitting editorial on Wednesday, the Tehran paper said the president's treatment of his critics was immoral, illogical and illegal.
Losing support
It was referring to a recent speech by Mr Ahmadinejad when he described people opposed to his nuclear programme as traitors and accused some senior former nuclear negotiators of spying for foreigners.
The paper said Mr Ahmadinejad was using this tactic to discredit his political rivals prior to the parliamentary elections due early next year.
It called on Iran's judiciary to perform its duty and punish people who make baseless allegations and cause public anxiety.
Such a direct personal attack against President Ahmadinejad is indeed rare in official media in Iran.
It shows that the Iranian president is not only losing support among ordinary people because of economic hardship, he is also angering part of the establishment for using the nuclear issue to bolster his personal power.
Official Denouncement Of Ahmadinejad?
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The mullahcracy may have had enough of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. A well-connected state-run newspaper in Iran accused him of "immoral" behavior by calling opponents of the nuclear program "traitors". The Islamic Republic has close ties to supreme cleric Ali Khameini, and its editorials usually reflect the viewpoint of the ruling clique:
In a hard-hitting editorial on Wednesday, the paper said the president's treatment of his critics was immoral, illogical and illegal.It was referring to a recent speech by Mr Ahmadinejad when he described people opposed to his nuclear programme as traitors and accused some senior former nuclear negotiators of spying for foreigners.
The paper said Mr Ahmadinejad was using this tactic to discredit his political rivals prior to the parliamentary elections due early next year.
It called on Iran's judiciary to perform its duty and punish people who make baseless allegations and cause public anxiety.
What to make of this? Ahmadinejad owes his position to the mullahs, and could not have won without the consent of Khameini. His rhetoric has been understood to reflect the positions of the Guardian Council, at least of enough of them to matter.
The newspaper's demand for judicial action could not have come without Khameini's approval, at least tacitly. The nuclear program cannot be the reason for this issue, but Ahmadinejad's clumsy diplomacy might. The increased sanctions, fueled in part by Ahmadinejad's careless rhetoric about America and Israel, have bit deeply into the economy. Popular discontent has increased sharply, to the point where some might actually welcome an American decapitation attempt.
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I recently read another thread that told about Iranian stusents being executed for “immoral behavior”.
I guess Mahmoud isn’t subject to the same laws as his enemies.
“has said Mr Ahmadinejad’s behaviour is dangerous for Iran. “
Maybe time to short oil futures.
No attack on Iran would be really bad (in a good way) for oil prices
It would be bad for Nancy and Harry too....
Low Oil Prices....that is!
Ingenious
Graphics!
I made the animated graphic, but the credit goes to the brave Danes who got the original inserted as an ad without the censors catching it.
It was very clever! I love it that the Iranian leaders were fooled and insulted by a swine referenced insult!
They've served their purpose.
I think the power dynamic there works the other way around; he (Ahminajad) was placed on the ballot by their (the leading mullahs) selection. Am I wrong?
And, Adolf Hitler was elected. And Josef Stalin paid his party dues.
My point is that I am starting to suspect that Nutjob used the Mullahacracy to get the job...and that he probably intends to KEEP it.
A "New Iranian Order" so to speak.
Off with his head!
Excerpts from Aviation Week:
“The first event in the raid involved Israel’s strike aircraft flying into Syria without alerting Syrian air defenses. The ultimate target was a suspected nuclear reactor being developed at Dayr az-Zawr. But the main attack was preceded by an engagement with a single Syrian radar site at Tall al-Abuad near the Turkish border.
The radar site was struck with a combination of electronic attack and precision bombs to allow the Israeli force to enter and exit Syrian airspace unobserved. Subsequently all of Syria’s air-defense radar system went off the air for a period of time that encompassed the raid, U.S. intelligence analysts told Aviation Week.”
“Elements of the attack included some brute force jamming, which is still an important element of attacking air defenses, U.S. analysts say. Also, Syrian air defenses are still centralized and dependent on dedicated HF and VHF communications networks, which made them vulnerable.
The analysts don’t believe that any part of Syria’s electrical grid was shut down. They do contend that network penetration involved both remote air-to-ground electronic attack and penetration through computer-to-computer links.
“There also were some higher-level, non-tactical penetrations, either direct or as diversions and spoofs of the Syrian command and control capability, done through network attack,” one U.S. intelligence specialist says.”
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Brute force jamming to allow access close enough to out weigh inverse square signal falloff with distance, (datalink gurus, see the bigger picture here and avoid argument based on directional antenna lobe/link EM falloff rates, please) to blind one site, and then order (at root level network access) “shutdown -h” .
Clearly the message sent is that we own the system, as is. (Firewalls are a dime a dozen, as are the techs that write their access lists.)
Ayatollah’s response?
The EFPs have stopped coming across the border, Iran stepped out of the fight at the same time Al Qaeda did, and now Ayatollah shows deep discontent with Ahmadinejad.
My money says Iran is close (a few months) to having enough fissile material to construct one or more functional (designs by Khan) nuclear weapons, and Khameinei is willing to throw aside his puppet, Ahmadinejad, attempting to appease the US, to buy himself that much time.
Note, no Iranian flexibility on U-235 enrichment to date.
He thinks the board changes the minute Iran lights up a test nuke, and the whole world will then stand back to a policy of containment of a nuclear Iran, at which point he hegemons his way into de facto control of the Persion Gulf, along with the oil, and Iran becomes the world’s “other” superpower.
True capitulation involves Khameinei giving up power in Iran, through abdication or true free elections, and cessation of nuclear weapons aspirations, specifically but not limited to, uranium enrighment.
We don’t see that yet, not even close. The game is on, and endgame begins shortly after Christmas.
Interesting.
Dissention among the lunatics.
Nutjob is the Charlie McMuslim of the Grand Ayatollah. His function is to serve as a lightning rod to divert attention away from the terrorism-supporting "religious" thugs running Iran's theocratic dictatorship.
Nutcase's jaw may go up and down, but it's the Great Oz with the nit-infested white beard that's doing the real talking.
When his usefulness is over, Nuthead will be given a retirement job as a night janitor in one of Iran's future-targeted nuclear facilities.
This article chastising the Nutter is probably a sign that he'll be in the Ayatollah's nutcracker by Christmas. How suite it is.
Leni
Does this mean Ahmacrazyraghed and Do Nothing Nancy may stop dating??
Pray for W and Our Victorious Troops
And the plot thickens......
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