ALJAZEERA(ALJAJOKEERA)WATCH- Ahmadinejad row with Khamenei intensifies http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/05/201156113955925329.html

A political dispute between Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the country's supreme leader is reported to have intensified.Ahmadinejad is said to be contemplating resigning after Heidar Moslehi, the intelligence minister he had sacked, was reinstated by Khamenei. The president is understood to have shirked some of his duties and skipped cabinet meetings for the past ten days in anger over the decision.Mehrdad Khonsari, an analyst with the Centre for Arab and Iranian Studies in London, told Al Jazeera on Friday that the dispute, which began last month, had become "serious".

"It shows the level of disunity at the very top of the Iranian [political] hierachy [with] Ahmadinejad having already polarised the internal political scene as a result of fraudulent election results that were announced more than 20 months ago," Khonsari said."He is now beginning to encroach on the powers and privileges vested in the supreme leader, and he and his constituency - mainly among the Revolutionary Guards - have tried to do this."And, of course, the supreme leader has tried to make a stand and in this stand he has been joined by many people from the ruling establishment who have been cast aside by Ahmadinejad."

Khonsari said that since the president came to power "powerful people like [Akbar Hashemi] Rasfanjani and ... [Mohammed] Khatami and many of the key reformers as well as the president of the current Council of Experts" have been sidelined."This is quite a standoff," he said. "Ahmadinejad, I think, at this particular time, has bitten more than he can chew and has been forced to essentially step back, but the fact [remains] that both he and the supreme leader are damaged as a result of this conflict."Although speculation continues that Ahmadinejad may resign, Khonsari stopped short of hinting at the possibility of him quitting and instead said the dispute would lead to "further polarisation; further disunity [and] rivalry ... within a state structure that's already fractured".

[AW MAN WHERE TO START ,WHERE TO START,FIRST OF ALL THE OPINIONS HERE NARRATED BY THIS MAN>''Mehrdad Khonsari, an analyst with the Centre for Arab and Iranian Studies in London''  ARE SO OBVIOUSLY EXPOSED FOR WHAT THEY ARE,WISHES BY A RABID PRO IMPERIALIST WHO WISHES  TO SEE IRAN FALL AND COLLAPSE GIVING WAY FOR WESTERN INTERESTS TO TAKE OVER...WHO IS THIS SCOUNDREL?

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Mehrdad Khonsari Senior Research Consultant, the Centre for Arab & Iranian Studies http://www.intelligencesquared.com/people/k/mehrdad-khonsari  Mehrdad Khonsari is a Senior Research Consultant at the Centre for Arab & Iranian Studies in London. He was born in 1949 in Teheran.He served as a diplomat with the Iranian Embassy in Washington in the early 1970s, the Permanent Mission of Iran to the UN in New York in the mid '70s, and the Iranian Embassy in London in the late '70s. ----------------------------

Khonsari served as Foreign Policy Adviser to the exiled former Prime Minister of Iran Dr. Shapour Bakhtiar and the former Crown Prince of Iran from the mid '80s to the early '90s. Since then, as an independent political acitivist, he has worked with the Iranian exile community and championed democracy and human rights in Iran. He has edited Voice of Iran and Iranfile and since 2005 has been Political Editor at Payame Azadi Television, a US-based television station that broadcasts in Iran. ---------------------------------

[YES HES A ONE TIME AFFLIATE TO THE MONARCHY BEFROE REVOLUTION!,HES ALSO WESTERN FUNDED TO RUN PROPAGANDA MEDIA IN IRAN ON BEHALF OF DISCREDITTED OPPOSITION!HE EVEN GES AS FAR AS TO CALL TEHSE NEOLIBERAL PRO IMPERIALISTS REFORMERS..

[[Khonsari said that since the president came to power "powerful people like [Akbar Hashemi] Rasfanjani and ... [Mohammed] Khatami and many of the key reformers ]]

(HOW PATHETIC INDEED,WAIT THERE IS MORE..)

BY DR. MEHRDAD KHONSARI* http://www.iran-press-service.com/articles/mehrdad.html Dr Mehrdad Khonsari is a former diplomat now living in London. He leads the pro-Monarchist "Front Line" organisation and is a regular contributor to the London-based CAIS, (Centre for Arab Iranian Studies).

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