Ahmadinejad grooms chief-of-staff to take over as Iran's president
The Guardian / Saeed Kamali Dehghan
22-Apr-2011 (one comment)


A close ally of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who favours cultural openness and opposes greater clerical involvement in politics, is being groomed as a possible successor to the Iranian president when he steps down in two years time.

Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, Ahmadinejad's chief-of-staff, is positioning himself as a candidate who will champion a nationalist rather than a theological narrative of Iran. Mashaei, whose daughter married Ahmadinejad's son, has become the most controversial political figure in Iran, provoking harsh criticism from the conservative establishment, including the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Hardliners close to Khamenei have accused Mashaei of compromising the Islamic Revolution and the principles of Islam by focusing on Persian history.

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Simorgh5555

Next Election President Winner Fixed

by Simorgh5555 on Fri Apr 22, 2011 02:25 AM PDT

Yep, the next Terror Regime Election winner has already been fixed in the same way Terror Poster Boy and the world's only symbian President Ahmadinejad won his second term in 2009. 


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