Meanwhile, in Other News: Ahmadinejad to be Impeached?
Other news, you say? What other news? Yes, the world is still spinning in its axis, and it looks as if it our buddy Ahmadinejad's in a bit of a pickle:
Electronic surveillance of officials at the highest levels of political power lies at the heart of a rift between Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, a source close to Tehran's conservative leadership told The Times.
Intense mistrust of Ahmadinejad's closest aide, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, put him in the sights of the nation's spy services, the source said, triggering a sequence of events that has humiliated and weakened Ahmadinejad after Khamenei reversed a presidential decision to fire the nation's intelligence minister, Heydar Moslehi. ...
Rivals of Ahmadinejad clearly smell blood and have spoken out against him and launched an impeachment drive in parliament. Iranian authorities have begun censoring pro-Ahmadinejad news websites that have been covering the affair, probably because of the sensitive accusations of espionage and leaks at the highest levels of the country's political elite.
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Jan '11
Re: Meanwhile, in Other News: Ahmadinejad to be Impeached?
Pressure. Pressure.
Sports teaches some useful lessons. One lesson is that pressure pays off. Even the best quarterbacks will start missing and throwing interceptions when they get pressured. Under pressure, people make mistakes. The more pressure, the more likely the mistakes.
We've been pressuring the jihadists for a while now. I suspect it's starting to pay off.
Re: Meanwhile, in Other News: Ahmadinejad to be Impeached?
Khameini's reversal of Ahmadinejad's firing of the intelligence minister is a big deal. Khameini's calling him out, basically. Here's a good piece with some background on what's going on.