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WikiLeaks document dump: Iran President Ahmadinejad slapped by head of Revolutionary Guard
NY Daily News ^ | January 03, 2011 | HELEN KENNEDY

Posted on 01/04/2011 9:42:59 AM PST by RobinMasters

The WikiLeaks document dump continues to kick up surprises.

A new diplomatic cable says the head of Iran's Revolutionary Guard smacked President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the face for suggesting easing restrictions on the press.

The February 2010 cable, classified secret and puckishly headlined, "He Who Got Slapped," quotes an intelligence source recounting a contentious meeting of Iran's Supreme National Security Council.

The Iranian bigs were trying to figure out what to do in the wake of Tehran's explosive pro-democracy street protests of 2009.

(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ahmadinejad; revolutionaryguard; wikileaks

1 posted on 01/04/2011 9:43:03 AM PST by RobinMasters
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To: RobinMasters

Just goes to prove that the military IS running the show there.


2 posted on 01/04/2011 9:46:21 AM PST by Peter from Rutland
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To: nuconvert

Ping.


3 posted on 01/04/2011 9:47:46 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Peter from Rutland
I think Iran took a page from “Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy” where the ‘Galactic President’ was not there to exercise power, but to draw attention AWAY FROM those who do.

Ackmydinnerjacket is SO OBVIOUSLY a puppet. A marionette the Mullahs wind up to say wacky things and attract attention.

4 posted on 01/04/2011 9:50:22 AM PST by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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To: RobinMasters

“He Who Got Slapped,”

Well, it is kind of like a circus over there!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0014972/


5 posted on 01/04/2011 9:52:38 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (I visited GEN TOMMY FRANKS Military Museum in HOBART, OKLAHOMA! Well worth it!)
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To: RobinMasters

Oh, come on now, I’m sure it was just a little sissy slap...if he’d meant business he’d have punched or shot him.


6 posted on 01/04/2011 9:56:23 AM PST by Shade_Trees_56
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

It clearly did not knock any sense into him.


7 posted on 01/04/2011 9:57:07 AM PST by edcoil (Democrat's and vampires should never be invited in your home.)
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To: Army Air Corps

Well, if he wasn’t knocked unconscious, he was hit hard enough.

Thanx for the ping.

And Happy New Year!


8 posted on 01/04/2011 10:03:12 AM PST by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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*wasn’t hit hard enough
:~ /


9 posted on 01/04/2011 10:15:47 AM PST by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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