Iran's President Mahmud Ahmadinejad has said that his successor has already been designated by God. Ahmadinejad reportedly made the comments in a March 16 meeting of provincial councils in the Iranian capital.
"Several friends had come and were saying, 'We're worried about the future.' I said, 'The future has been decided, go do your work, the result will come.' [One of them] said, 'Who's the next one?' I said, 'Do you think God doesn't know who's next?' He said [yes, he knows]. I said, 'So why are you sad? The time is over when they could rule people through factional games.'"
Ahmadinejad did not mention any names but reports suggest that he is pushing for his close aide, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, to succeed him, even though the ultimate decision about the country's future president lies with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Digarban.com, a website that focuses on hard-line blogs and websites, reports that Ahmadinejad had predicted a week before the disputed June 2009 presidential vote that he would be the winner of the election.
The Iranian president said on March 16 that before the vote he had told his supporters that a major event would take place.
"I kept saying before the 2009 election that a big event is on the way," Ahmadinejad said. "After the vote someone came and asked me, 'What was the big event?' I said, 'Is there any event bigger than this?!'"
The former mayor of Tehran and a relatively unknown figure, Ahmadinej... >>>
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by mahmoudg on Sun Mar 20, 2011 04:17 PM PDTVa Arab Islamic Rapist Cultists of Iran ro bebarand.
خدا راي ها رو دزديد
G. RahmanianSun Mar 20, 2011 11:56 AM PDT
اين دفعه خدا به همه رو دست زد.
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by yolanda on Sun Mar 20, 2011 09:58 AM PDTThey cancelled his visit to New York:
//www.payvand.com/news/11/mar/1163.html
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Mashaei met his wife in prison when he was a prison interrogator........scary and morbid romance!
//articles.latimes.com/2009/jul/25/world/fg-iran25
Here is the excerpt from the LA Times article:
"Qalibaf said Mashaei's wife is a former member of the group and the two met in prison, where he was her interrogator. A source close to the Mashaei family confirmed that, saying that she had been sentenced to hang when he proposed to marry her to save her from the gallows."
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An interrogator marrying/falling in love with an inmate..........it sounds like conflict of interest!