As everyone knows, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his clan of Mullahs and the Ayatollah rigged the election and robbed the people of their voice to choose their own destiny, which some view as a choice between more warmongering and economic despair, and the hope of a future of peace and prosperity.
After previously being against all negotiations involving Iran's nuclear program, which is widely suspected of being for the purposes of nuclear weapons and talking of wiping Israel off the map, anti-semitic rants and hosting a Holocaust denial conference, and supporting the support of Hamas and Hezbollah, two terrorist groups bent on international jihad, and of course, vehement anti-American and anti-Western rants, after his fake and fraudulent election, Mahmoud decided to try something new.
He appointed someone to be a top VP, who said that Iranians are friends ""friends of all people in the world — even Israelis." Perhaps Ahmad did this because perhaps he was hoping to maybe cut down on the heat that been aimed at him. Maybe he had different reasons, as the guy's son is married to his daughter, or maybe he just liked him.
But having Ahmadinejad in office wasn't good enough for the mullahs and hardliners. They demanded that Ahmad dismiss the appointment, and after a few days, he has caved in to the Dear Leader Khamenei:
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad caved into pressure from hardline clerics and the country's supreme leader Friday and allowed the resignation of his top deputy after a week-long standoff.
For days, the president had resisted pressure from hard-liners, including a direct order from the supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to dismiss his choice for the key post of first vice president, Esfandiar Rahim Mashai, who last year angered conservatives when he made friendly comments toward Israel.
The final blow, however, appeared to be the public reading on state television of the order issued earlier by Khamenei to dismiss Mashai because he is "contrary to the interest of you and the government."
The issue created a rare rift between Ahmadinejad and the hard-liners that form the bedrock of his support and comes at a particular sensitive time as he is battling opposition reformists who accuse him of winning the June 12 presidential elections through fraud.
"After the announcement of the exalted supreme leader's order, Mashai doesn't consider himself first vice president," IRNA quoted presidential aide Mojtaba Samareh Hashemi as saying late Friday.
The resignation capped a day of renewed pressure that featured conservative student street demonstrations and Friday sermons railing against Mashai's appointment.
Now, after Ahmadinejad's actions and words as President, I have never trusted him, and I especially do not trust him and the Dear Leader Khamenei with a nuclear weapon. When you talk of wiping countries off the map and support terror groups bent on genocide, and attack countries with them thru proxy, contrary to the idea that the Islamic Republic of Iran is peaceful as many here claim, and suppress electoral dissent so brutally, you cannot be trusted. Lets not forget that the same groups that Ahmad/Khamenei support have attacked countries across the seas, like in South America, and thru Lebanon and the Palestinian Territories and inside Israel itself.
I do not know why more sanctions weren't put into place at the G8 meeting. That will forever puzzle me. But it is clear this regime should not have a nuclear weapon, and it has now shown it is fooling nobody.
Ahmadinejad is desparate for power, and trying to now please the international community and his puppet masters. We see thru him. But it is good to see Ahmadinejad alienate them in some ways, because hopefully, then their united front will fall apart and the regime could fall down. Ahmad has done the opposition a great service. Mousavi must hang in tough and keep fighting this regime, even tho his family is now under attack from Ahmadinejad's brass.
As I have said, the window for negotiations should only be held open for so long. I am against an invasion/occupation. but that being said, with regard to nuclear sights only, no other option should be taken off the table.