NCRI – The prolonged factional infighting among Ali Khamenei, mullahs' Supreme Leader, supporters over forged diploma of Ali Kordan, Ahmadinejad's Interior Minister, came to an end with his impeachment on the Majlis (parliament) floor on Tuesday.
On Sunday, Ahmadinejad called the impeachment "a move against the entire government" and added that he will not be present at the time of his cabinet member's ouster.
Hossein Shariatmadari, Khamenei's mouthpiece and editor of official daily Kayhan reacted to Ahmadinejad's comments and said on the same day, "The impeachment process was called for by some of the government's most staunched supports of the President [Ahmadinejad]. The Majlis minority is not opposed to Mr. Kordan's remaining in the office; rather, they view him as a trump card in the hands of the Principalists [hardliners]."
At the same time, Shariatmadari described the process both "costly" and "challenging". "Playing in this field is to the advantage of foreign enemies and their domestic proxies," he added.
Thus, the very same people, Khamenei's own faction, that called for Kordan's impeachment, also point out the unbridle magnitude of it all. A crisis which gains momentum in the clerical regime's faltering state.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
November 5, 2008
