Wikileaks Reveals Politics, Iranian Style

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Here’s an amusing and interesting Wikileaks revelation; it shows who is really the boss in Iran, and it’s not Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: Iran President Ahmadinejad slapped by head of Revolutionary Guard.

The February 2010 cable, classified secret and puckishly headlined, “He Who Got Slapped,” quotes an intelligence source recounting a contentious meeting of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council. The Iranian bigs were trying to figure out what to do in the wake of Tehran’s explosive pro-democracy street protests of 2009.

“Ahmadinejad claimed that ‘people feel suffocated,’ and mused that to defuse the situation it may be necessary to allow more personal and social freedoms, including more freedom of the press,” the cable says.

It continues, “Ahmadinejad’s statements infuriated Revolutionary Guard Chief of Staff Mohammed Ali Jafari, who exclaimed ‘You are wrong! [In fact] it is YOU who created this mess! And now you say give more freedom to the press?!’

“Source said that Jafari then slapped Ahmadinejad in the face, causing an uproar,” the cable says.

As with almost all the Wikileaks cables, this doesn’t really show us anything we didn’t already suspect, but it does confirm that Ahmadinejad is essentially a puppet leader, a front for the mullahs and their Revolutionary Guard enforcement arm.

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