Conservative clerics, convinced that the ambitious President remains determined to supplant messianic, rebuked Mr. Ahmadinejad to elevate its own station.
"The relationship with the leader of the revolution should be the relationship between the Guide and guided," growled file Zolnour, representative of the Supreme Leader to the revolutionary guards, in a speech at the religious centre of Qum, Iran. "What does it mean to say that my relationship with the leader is as the relation of a son of his father. This is nonsense. This is deviant speech "!
Since April, an unusually public battle between two men climbing a long time seen as the ideological soul-mates — Mr. Ahmadinejad and Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali khamenei.
Web sites in support of the President was disconnected and intruders drowned out some of his speech to mark the anniversary of the death of the founder of the Iranian revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. A lot of blame for the Division directs Esfandyar Rahim Mashaei, head of Mr. Ahmadinejad and a former Director of the Foundation for tourism, itself often portrayed in the Iranian press as a source of corruption and Cultural heritage.
Former allies conservatives firmly between the clergy, in Parliament and in the armed forces have abandoned the President in droves, expressing his allegiance to Ayatollah Khamenei while labeling the presidential circle "deviant". current
Fundamentally, the fight is according to a standard presidential politics that has troubled the Islamic Republic since the 1979 revolution. The system allows for two Presidents, a divine other democratic. The divine leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, keeps most of the levers of power, control the armed forces, the judiciary and the State broadcasting services.
The leader of the divine is also permanent, while elected Presidents serve a maximum of eight years. Ancestors of Mr. Ahmadinejad — Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Mohammad Khatami, who has also clashed with the Supreme Leader on prerogatives — gradually faded from view.
Mr. Ahmadinejad is determined to avoid his fate and that experts say will set off the current confrontation.
"The game is now Ahmadinejad trying to maneuver politically to gain more power, while Khamenei tries to contain it," said Mustafa el-Labbad, Center Director Al Sharq Regional and strategic studies in Cairo. "It is a fight motivated by politics and economics, being presented by some as an ideological struggle and spiritual".
It all began in April, when Mr. Ahmadinejad attempted to fire Heydar Moslehi, Minister of intelligence, and the supreme leader ordered him reinstated. Mr. Ahmadinejad pouted at home for 11 days, returning only after the Supreme Leader signaled that the President, too, could be replaced.
Mr. Ahmadinejad was elected twice using the machine politics of Ayatollah Khamenei. But he wanted to build its own system of patronage and source of funds, separated from the network intelligence loyal to Supreme Leader, to elect candidates in parliamentary elections in 2012 and most importantly, in the presidential race of 2013, according to experts of Iran.
Mr. Mashaei is often named as the likely candidate, although he flees. But he and Mr. Ahmadinejad are suspected of helping the private banks and travel contracts with the Government of the revolutionary guards, who are loyal to Supreme Leader, to finance their own political goals, said Mehdi Khalaji Washington Institute for Near East policy.
By openly contradicting the Supreme Leader in April, Mr. Ahmadinejad provoked many Iranians to turn against him. Since then he has been engaged in a running skirmish about each appointment Cabinet, including the oil Minister, the Minister of sport, the Foreign Minister and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. Mohammed Sharif Malekzadeh, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, lasted only three days, resigning Tuesday amid a tumult.
Artin Afkhami contributed reporting from Washington and Lara Gibaly El Cairo.
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