Ahmadinejad dismisses his Minister of Intelligence Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei for reportedly not supporting his pick of Mashaei as first VP. Just as we thought the whole Mashaei thing was dying down, Ahmadinejad has new cabinet drama to worry about.
The reports suggest he also wanted to sack his Ministers of Labor and Culture for also opposing the pick, but he did not want to start a conflict with Parliament and a possible vote of no confidence.
It will be interesting if Ahmadinejad can now get his new picks for his cabinet through the parliament which must approve all new ministers. It is clear that a conflict is brewing between Ahmadinejad who wants to run a relatively independent administration as President and the hardliners who view his presidency as a puppet of their power. We must wait and see if the opposition can exploit this division with the hardliners to bring down all those in power.
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