Iranian cleric blasts Ahmadinejad

American · 08-27-08, 06:13 PM

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An Iranian cleric accused President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of betraying the people and called on reformers to unite to defeat him in next year's elections, according to an interview in a German newspaper quoted by Reuters, Wednesday.
"Ahmadinejad is not complying with the will of the people," The Financial Times Deutschland quoted Grand Ayatollah Bajat Sanjani as saying. "This is a major threat, a big danger," the cleric added in an unusually direct personal attack. The newspaper also said Sanjani accused Ahmadinejad's government of breaking the law, seriously violating personal freedom and illegally empowering the Revolutionary Guard.

Dang, even one of the head honchos hates this guy.

Summerwind · 08-27-08, 06:19 PM

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Dang, even one of the head honchos hates this guy.

Not all clerics are "head honchos," if this was one, I'm sure they'd have pointed it out. Every country has their complainers, doesn't mean much. I mean this cleric could be their D. Kuchinich, and will be ignored just as readily.

Kernel Sanders · 08-27-08, 07:50 PM

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Dang, even one of the head honchos hates this guy.

He isn't listening to the people, which is bad? Sounds exactly like every criticism that every leader of every nation on Earth receives from the "head honchos" of that nation. Just google "blasts bush" or "blasts clinton" or "blasts putin" and you'll find plenty of the same

SgtRock · 08-27-08, 08:06 PM

Iran definatly needs reform. The religious police are way to envolved in peoples personal lifes. I hope Ahmademonjihad is replaced. I think there problem is the religious hierarchy. They are the guys running Iran. Ahmademonjihad is mearly a puppet for the mullahs.

Vader · 08-27-08, 08:20 PM

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Iran definatly needs reform. The religious police are way to envolved in peoples personal lifes. I hope Ahmademonjihad is replaced. I think there problem is the religious hierarchy. They are the guys running Iran. Ahmademonjihad is mearly a puppet for the mullahs.

Aminjackoff, the Mullahs, and the Ayetollah all need to be removed from office and banned from politics.

Then they all need to spend 20 years in prison.

rathi · 08-27-08, 08:41 PM

The Expediency council is the probably the most important ruling force in Iran. The previous president of Iran was almost the opposite of Ahmadinejad, but was unable to make many reforms because of the political system. Because the expediency council only answers to supreme leader, it is essentially able to ignore the wishes of the populace. There is a significant political gap in Iran based on age, and its possible that the younger generation will get hungry enough to start applying serious pressure. Still, the president in Iran isn't that powerful, and it require that the real power brokers feel the heat before change can occur.

Jake Blues · 08-28-08, 02:05 PM

I have to agree this Mullah does not have enough power to do anything about it.

GySgt · 08-28-08, 03:30 PM

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He isn't listening to the people, which is bad? Sounds exactly like every criticism that every leader of every nation on Earth receives from the "head honchos" of that nation. Just google "blasts bush" or "blasts clinton" or "blasts putin" and you'll find plenty of the same

The point here is that this is a Muslim Cleric blasting his leader over oppression and brutality from within the civilization. Is it really that big a deal to see an individual in the West exercise his rights to free speech about how much he hates a freely elected official? If a Muslim Martin Luther King Jr. emerged from the streets of Arab oppression would it be of little importance because of what occurred here in the States a few decades ago? Is it really the same thing as when it comes from within the Middle Eastern civilization?

Clerics and other religious men have a lot of power in this region. When one speaks up, we should acknowledge what he is doing rather than dismissing it because someone in the West doesn't like Bush, Clinton, or Putin.

This cleric will be lucky to be alive at the end of the year. His kind of expression breeds descension.

Vader · 08-28-08, 05:00 PM

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The point here is that this is a Muslim Cleric blasting his leader over oppression and brutality from within the civilization. Is it really that big a deal to see an individual in the West exercise his rights to free speech about how much he hates a freely elected official? If a Muslim Martin Luther King Jr. emerged from the streets of Arab oppression would it be of little importance because of what occurred here in the States a few decades ago? Is it really the same thing as when it comes from within the Middle Eastern civilization?

Clerics and other religious men have a lot of power in this region. When one speaks up, we should acknowledge what he is doing rather than dismissing it because someone in the West doesn't like Bush, Clinton, or Putin.

This cleric will be lucky to be alive at the end of the year. His kind of expression breeds descension.

End of the year?

I wouldn't count on him suriving through the end of the month.

The Ayetioletbowl is not going to like the spotlight being on his nasty deeds.

As I have long stated ... the Ayetoiletbowl, Aminajackoff and most of the mullahs need a dirt nap.

Jake Blues · 08-29-08, 03:21 AM

I don't think anyone is dissing it,Gunney.I think most of us realize that there are mullahs and then there are mullahs that have real power.His courage to speak up is to be applauded but he is not the first mullah to do so.As far as killing him I dont see that happening.Nobody kills a mullah in Iran.It is an unwritten rule.Why I don't know.Some of them are as about as religious as a drunk sailor in Waikiki after a six month deployment out to sea.The US is even afraid to kill them.Look at how they let that piece of excrement Muktada Al Sadr walk and breathe in Iraq.Military Channel just showed a documentary on the battle for Najaf where the shrine of Ali is.I just watched how the US allowed Marines to be killed while allowing Sadr to live.If I was running the show he would have been starring in The Departed.A Marine sniper would have sent him to Hades long ago.