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Iran's Guardian Council smacks down Ahmadinejad
2008-02-17
Iran's constitutional watchdog on Saturday opposed an attempt by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to expand his administration's power, saying the move "lacks legal justification."
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The decision by the Guardian Council was the second major rebuke in less than a month for the hardline president, whose popularity has plummeted recently in the face of Iran's ailing economy. Last month, Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei rebuffed Ahmadinejad and ordered him to implement a law supplying natural gas to remote villages after he initially refused to do so.

The most recent conflict began earlier this month when Iran's parliament opposed Ahmadinejad's attempt to bring several cultural, economic, technological and environmental institutions under tighter government control. The institutions were composed of a mix of government-appointed and independent representatives, but the Iranian president wanted to have total control of their activities.

The parliament countered Ahmadinejad's attempt by passing its own bill that explicitly prevented the president from taking any steps to bring the institutions under greater government control.
Posted by:Seafarious

#8  interesting point dodo. Ahmad would start purging if he could - so it will be interesting to see if he can.
Posted by: Grailing and Tenille1838   2008-02-17 22:09  

#7  Instead of waiting for parliament's next move, Ahmadinejad ignored both institutions and issued a decree ordering the merger of the institutions,

The Guardian Council may be the one that needs to be worried. Ahmadinejad may believe he doesn't need them.
Posted by: DoDo   2008-02-17 13:07  

#6  In the old Roman empire, when a victorious general returned to receive a victory laurel from the Emperor, a slave was tasked to ride next to him in his chariot, as he passed through streets filled with adoring Romans.

The slave's duty was to, at intervals, whisper to the general the same thing:

"Thou art mortal."

This proved over time to be an excellent way of insuring that by the time the general reached the Emperor, he was humble enough to remember his place and not try to upstage his boss.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2008-02-17 09:56  

#5  It seems all that's needed to consign the Mullahcracy into the economic abyss is a serious collapse in crude prices. Commence drilling!
Posted by: doc   2008-02-17 09:06  

#4  Iran's Guardian Council smacks down Ahmadinejad

lol! What does that make him now? About four foot tall?
Posted by: Grailing and Tenille1838   2008-02-17 04:43  

#3  I remember the old Green Lantern had to report to the Guardian Council.

The Green Lanterns had replaced the Martian Manhunters as galactic cops.

Ahmadinejad might have been a lackey to one of the weaker supercriminals.
Posted by: mhw   2008-02-17 00:35  

#2   ...the second major rebuke in less than a month for the headline hardline president,

...the second major rebuke in less than a month for the headcase headline hardline president,
Posted by: Seafarious   2008-02-17 00:20  

#1  ...the second major rebuke in less than a month for the headline hardline president,
Posted by: GK   2008-02-17 00:09  

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