Friday, August 17, 2007

Top Iran cleric makes rare criticism of government

Interesting things going on inside Iran. The press there may not be free, but is freer than someplaces, and Ahmadinejad had better watch his back.

Agence France-Presse - 17 August, 2007
Iran's judiciary chief has publicly criticised President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for needlessly changing top officials, in a rare intervention in politics by one of Iran's most respected clerics.The criticism by Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, reported by the media on Thursday, comes in the same week that the president unexpectedly replaced his oil and industry ministers, amid continued economic problems in Iran.

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