Hormuz Incident: IRGC Acted Outside Ahmadinejad
Maybe Da Munchkin King is the most liberal in Munchkinland.
Sounds like the Lollipop Guild is acting outside his authority.
Hardliners bent on confrontation with the West are presenting President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran with a serious challenge to his authority.
Government insiders say the clash in the Strait of Hormuz between American warships and Iranian gunboats last week exposed a power struggle at the heart of the regime in Teheran.
According to sources within Iran’s ministry of foreign affairs, Mr Ahmadinejad was kept in the dark about the decision to challenge the US ships until after the confrontation had ended. He is understood to have been unhappy about the action, which was ordered by hardline elements in the country’s Revolutionary Guard.
“The president is not the commander-in-chief in Iran and it seems he was totally unaware of the incident being planned in advance,” one senior official admitted.
Sources within the Iranian regime have told The Sunday Telegraph that the incident is the latest in a series of clashes between the president and hardliners, who are unhappy with what they see as backsliding by Mr Ahmadinejad.
Mr Ahmadinejad has been widely perceived as being set on a collision course with the West, particularly over the issue of Iran’s nuclear programme.
But some observers suggest that the president wants to distance himself from the country’s problems in the run up to parliamentary elections in March.
The Iranian economy is struggling and consumers face heating fuel shortages.
The president is understood to have been critical of a recent crackdown on un-Islamic dress on the streets of Teheran, when so-called morality police picked on women wearing make up and knee-high boots.
Thousands were warned and some arrested.
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So the orders are now being issued by the Lollipop Guild that is Al Quds huh? And Ahmed the monkey-king didn’t know about it? Yeah sure…
January 13th, 2008 at 3:52 pm