June 24, 2009
Clerics openly defy Khamenei; join protests
The fissures in the Iranian theocray are starting to split wide open.Octavia Nasr of CNN is reporting that protests yesterday in Tehran prominently featured many participants in clerical robes and turbans - an unmistakable sign that the lock step obedience all religious in Iran owe to the Supreme Leader is starting to crumble: In a blatant act of defiance, a group of Mullahs took to the streets of Tehran, to protest election results that returned incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to power. Whether these clerics voted for Ahmadinejad or one of the opposition candidates is unknown. What is important here, is the decision to march against the will of Iran's supreme leader who called the results final and declared demonstrations illegal. In the Islamic Republic of Iran, Mullahs rule supreme. They are the country's conservative clerics; the guardians of the Islamic revolution and its ideologies. They're loyal only to God and Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.I'm with...(Read Full Post)