Iran's supreme leader tells Ahmadinejad: accept minister or quit

[Freddie Stubbs]

Source: The Guardian

An unprecedented power struggle at the heart of the Iranian regime has intensified after it emerged that the supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, had given an ultimatum to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to accept his intervention in a cabinet appointment or resign.

A member of the Iranian parliament, Morteza Agha-Tehrani – who is described as "Ahmadinejad's moral adviser" – told a gathering of his supporters on Friday that a meeting between Ahmadinejad and Khamenei had recently taken place, in which the president was given a deadline to resign or to accept the decision of the ayatollah.

The extraordinary confrontation came to light after Ahmadinejad declined to officially support Khamenei's reinstatement of a minister whom the president had initially asked to resign.

The rift between the two men grew when the president staged an 11-day walkout in an apparent protest at Khamenei's decision. In the first cabinet meeting since ending his protest, the intelligence minister at the centre of the row, Heydar Moslehi, was absent and in the second one on Wednesday, he was reportedly asked by Ahmadinejad to leave.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/06/iran-supreme-leader-ahmadinejad-minister

[Drale]

1. The Iranian government is going to fall the same way as China's is going to one day fall

Internal government strife and the people will rise up and take advantage.

[northoftheborder]

2. Like we need another revolution right now?????

[ret5hd]

3. i think it's the best of times.

[snooper2]

5. If your going to get something done might was well do it all at once

You don't replace a fence one panel at a time right :)

[Xolodno]

4. Thats what happens when....

...you silence all your opposition and critics...eventually you start fighting over petty things amongst people you agree with. And you can't compromise or come to agreements...because you don't know how as you are used to getting what you want all the time.