- 25 July 2009
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- Events in Iran, Iran Election 2009
Despite spat with Leader, Ahmadinejad names Mashaei special advisor
25 July 2009 Posted By Patrick Disney
From Press TV:
After a weeklong furor amongst Iran’s ruling elite over Ahmadinejad’s vice president choice, the president appoints the deputy, who resigned, as an advisor and head of the Presidential Office.
“I appoint you [Esfandiar Rahim-Mashaei], as a faithful and competent figure, as advisor and head of the Presidential Office,” Ahmadinejad said in a decree on Saturday.According to the decree published on president’s website, Ahmadinejad expressed hope Rahim-Mashaei would be successful in serving the great Iranian nation and the Islamic establishment in cooperation with his colleagues.
Rahim-Mashaei’s appointment as the country’s vice president unleashed torrents of criticism from both the president’s supporters and opponents alike.
Following the political controversy, the president reversed his decision and accepted Rahim-Mashaei resignation.
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5 Responses to “Despite spat with Leader, Ahmadinejad names Mashaei special advisor”
Please stop calling Ahmadinejad “the president” in these blogs. He is not the president.
The demoralizing phantom holding the cudgel can strike us
Like a rapist would, or screech like an injured swine,
Or reflect our disgraced and beaten will, as the ghouls have.
The vapors cannot cleave from our hearts our children’s dawn
Or their passion tendered willingly as falling rain from heaven,
Like Gibran’s silver thread’s fetching them laughter in front of misery.
They are the heirs, the warriors to lift Damocles’ blade from the sky and
Mightily point it as proof they’ll not breathe another minute next to fear.
They will evermore admonish the failing ghosts of this day’s shadow
And fend off the hounds of cruelty with the strength they’ve resurrected.
There will be no reason to shrink from this; their destiny; they’ve seen
Her floating over their heads, grace and harmony hanging by a thread.
© 2009 mrp/thepoetryman
This is great news… I hope the President-(un)elect and Supreme Leader keep fighting.
Quarrel among rubbers and thieves continue. Will there be a shoot out?
Tempest in a teapot, self-contained, probably meant as a distraction.