tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5169130203475264933.post197253588399912723..comments2024-03-10T22:24:34.032-04:00Comments on Uskowi on Iran - اسکویی در باره ایران: Crisis in Iran: Ahmadinejad Sets Conditions for His Return as PresidentNader Uskowihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02808543185109048956noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5169130203475264933.post-69736117888244473242011-04-29T18:15:20.365-04:002011-04-29T18:15:20.365-04:00Paul,
Ahmadinejad was the one who chose Mashaie a...Paul,<br /><br />Ahmadinejad was the one who chose Mashaie as his first VP upon his reelection. Khamenei openly ordered him to dump Mashaie, in a letter published by the country's news agencies, which was thought at the time, and correctly so, to be a direct challenge to the authority of an elected president to choose his deputy. Ahmadinejad countered the move with hours by appointing Mashaie to be his chief of staff and gave him almost as much authority as that of a first VP, and later expanded his portfolio by naming him his representative for the Middle East. At the time many commentators in this blog praised Ahmadinejad, and rightly so, for his independent actions. Mashaie was forced to resign his chief of staff position, a move Ahmadinejad suspected to be orchestrated by the intelligence minister Moslehi and the hardliner. Hence the type of reaction by Ahmadinejad, like firing Moslehi only to be reinstated a few hours later by Khamenei. Why wouldn't Ahmadinejad want him as his principle deputy? He believes the constitution and the tradition gives him that authority. Why such thinking needs to be described as a conspiracy by the reformists and principalists?<br /><br />On our sources: I have explained this during other occasions. This blog's factual reporting (and of course not the editorials) are based on the reports by news agencies, among them major Iranian agencies, and other media. If however we receive a report directly on a development in the country that we consider as authoritative, and only if we can corroborate the report by at least a second independent source, we will report it as fact, prefacing it with a phrase like Uskowi on Iran has learned ...Nader Uskowihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02808543185109048956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5169130203475264933.post-7534887970391916342011-04-27T23:17:20.029-04:002011-04-27T23:17:20.029-04:00Nader,
You are "reporting" hearsay and ...Nader,<br /><br />You are "reporting" hearsay and rumors without any sort of confirmation, and without much in terms of intelligent analysis.<br /><br />Why would Ahmadinejad set one of his conditions as return of Mashai as VP? This "news" has either been put out by the reformists or the prinipalists to attack him, and to make it look like the whole fight is over Mashai. A person of Ahmadinejad's intelligence does not give ammunition to his domestic enemies this easy.Paulnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5169130203475264933.post-75761658722290697072011-04-27T02:42:45.210-04:002011-04-27T02:42:45.210-04:00Now it's starting to get interesting. Let'...Now it's starting to get interesting. Let's see if there is some give and take offered or this becomes zero-sum. Either way, there are positive possibilities.Mark Pyruzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00595161519097596575noreply@blogger.com