Ahmadinejad Losing Ground in Iran Power Struggle, Analysts Say

Iranian President Ahmadinejad is trying to retain control of Iran’s Oil Ministry despite a ruling by the country’s top judicial body that he can’t serve as its acting chief, in the latest in a series of unusually public squabbles between Ahmadinejad and allies of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

„I think Ahmadinejad underestimated the power of Khamenei, and he overestimated his own power,“ said Haleh Esfandiari, director of Middle Eastern studies at the Woodrow Wilson International Center, who was jailed for more than three months in 2007 during a visit to Iran. „You can step on anybody’s toes, but not on his toe.“

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The Syrian people quickly responded to the calls made a few days ago by Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah for the demonstrators to stand with the Syrian regime „of resistance“, and the popular Syrian response to this was to burn pictures of Nasrallah on what was dubbed the „Friday of the Guardians of the Homeland.“

This is not the first response of its kind from the Syrian protestors, indeed a slogan that was previously being chanted by the Syrian demonstrators was „No to Iran, No to Hezbollah…we want somebody who is God-fearing!“ This means that Hezbollah, and its leadership’s reading of the Syrian uprising has been wrong, as has been their reading of all other events in the region. It is clear that Nasrallah’s reading of the situation in Syria was wrong, for just a few days after he came out to call on the Syrian people to „preserve their country“ and maintain al-Assad’s „regime of resistance“, the Syrian people came out to burn his picture!

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Ein kleiner diplomatischer Zwischenfall

Bolivien hat sich entschuldigt. Bei Argentinien. Und der iranische Verteidigungsminister ist am Dienstagabend ganz schnell von Bogota aus heimgeflogen. Der war nämlich bei den Genossen vom Sozialismus des 21. Jahrhunderts zu Besuch und durfte in seiner schnieken Umiform neben Präsident Morales eine Parade abnehmen.  Nur dumm, daß Ahmad Vahidid auf Anfrage von Argentinien durch Interpol gesucht wird, wegen seiner mutmaßlichen Beteiligung an einem Anschlag auf ein jüdisches Gemeindezentrum 1994.

Bolivian Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca subsequently sent a letter to Hector Timerman, his Argentine counterpart, expressing his government’s „deepest apologies“. The invitation, Mr Choquehuanca wrote, had been issued by the Bolivian defence ministry which did not know the background to the case and had not co-ordinated with other departments. The Iranian minister would be leaving immediately, the letter said. (BBC)