Sunday, June 28, 2009

Same Old Plots Against Khameini

There's been a lot of chatter about more moderate Iranian ayatollahs like Hashemi Rafsanjani making a move against election-rigging Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei. This morning's HuffPost headline is "Hard-liners and moderates plotting against Khamenei."
The power struggle inside Iran appears to be moving from the streets into the heart of the regime itself this weekend amid reports that Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani is plotting to undermine the power of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
But where's the evidence of the plotting, let alone that the plotting is making any progress?

It's all starting to sound like wishful thinking to me.

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