Iran's power struggle - Inside Story - Al Jazeera English
The Leveretts: "As the controversy surrounding the (not accepted) resignation of the Islamic Republic’s Intelligence Minister, Heydar Moslehi, has played out over the past few weeks, Western pundits, journalists, and policymakers have once again intoned portentously about “unprecedented” divisions among Iranian leaders, and even about the possibility of the Islamic Republic coming apart “at the top”. The ongoing willingness of such people to pass off wishful thinking as analysis continues to amaze us. As an antidote, we highly recommend a segment from Al Jazeera’s Inside Story that aired earlier this week, and can be viewed by clicking here. One of the guests, Seyed Mohammad Marandi of the University of Tehran, makes the essential point that the kinds of contestation over policy and position which Westerners love to call a “crisis” in the Islamic Republic are considered normal politics everywhere else in the world. The whole segment is worth watching. Now President Ahmadinejad is working to implement a parliamentary mandate to reduce the number of ministries in the Islamic Republic’s executive branch. We wonder how many “unprecedented” manifestations of political “crisis” the Western commentariat will identify as this story unfolds."
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