Friday, May 27, 2011

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad 'under a spell', Ayatollah Misbah Yazdi says - Telegraph #iranelections #tcot #freeiran #jcot

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/8514929/Mahmoud-Ahm...

...."The president has taken the unprecedented step of refusing to obey orders handed down by the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, less than two years after the pair formed a powerful political alliance to defeat anti-regime protests that swept the country."...

... "Regime elements are taking sides, but the president is looking increasingly isolated as the Revolutionary Guard and the clerical establishment swing behind the Supreme Leader. Even Ayatollah Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi, whose apocalyptic vision of Shia Islam Mr Ahmadinejad is thought to follow, has joined in the criticism. I've told some of my close friends that I am more than 90 per cent certain that he has been put under a spell," Ayatollah Yazdi told reporters. "This is not natural at all. "No sane person does such things unless his free will has been taken away."...

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