Reply #3: You know he's a front man [View All]

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

with no real power-the Supreme Ayatollah is the one who can push the button. What I don't get is why they let Ahmadinejad to go on and on about all this if, as I have heard, the Ayatollah is taking a more conciliatory stance towards Israel.

Edited to add this, something that should give us all pause:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ibd/20061130/bs_ibd_ibd/20061129issues

And it seems likely to get worse. Another significant piece of news -- the ominous one -- surfaced earlier this month in media reports on the rise of Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi Mesbah-Yazdi.

Mesbah-Yazdi, an ideological mentor to Ahmadinejad, is an extremist cleric who endorses the use of suicide bombers against Israel and for confrontation with the West.

He is also campaigning to succeed Grand Ayatollah Ali Khameini as head of the Iranian Islamic state, and his ties to fellow fundamentalist Ahmadinejad give him a leg up. If he wins, as appears all too probable, Iran will be taking another step away from democracy and toward war.

Source is Investors Business Daily, so I don't know how reliable it is. Will look some more online and see what else is to be found.