UK Guardian: Hardliners turn on Ahmadinejad for watching women dancers

[DeepModem Mom]

Hardliners turn on Ahmadinejad for watching women dancers
Robert Tait in Tehran
Tuesday December 5, 2006


The Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
(Photograph: Abedin Taherkenareh/EPA)

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran, who flaunts his ideological fervour, has been accused of undermining Iran's Islamic revolution after television footage appeared to show him watching a female song and dance show.

The famously austere Mr Ahmadinejad has been criticised by his own allies after attending the lavish opening ceremony of the Asian games in Qatar, a sporting competition involving 13,000 athletes from 39 countries. The ceremony featured Indian and Egyptian dancers and female vocalists. Many were not wearing veils.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,,1964075,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=12

[noonwitch]

1. So, I guess he's human after all

It does lead me to wonder if all of the bs he is forever saying is just rhetoric.

I still hope the Iranian people rise up and throw the clerics and hardliners out of power.