Middle East
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Author: IranPressNews
19 May 2011
Hard-liners call for arrest of Ahmadinejad aide
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Author: IranPressNews
6 May 2011
Scenario to Eliminate Ahmadinejad’s Right Hand Begins
The website Alef published a report yesterday according to which Esfandiar Rahim-Mashaei and Hamid Baghaei are shareholders of a company named SAMGA, allegedly been established with an initial capital of 20 billion tomans (about 20 million U.S. dollars) and is run by Mehdi Jahangiri, Rahim-Mashaei s former deputy at the Cultural Heritage Organization.
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Author: The Economist
5 May 2011
Trouble at the top
IN THE Byzantine corridors of Iranian power, a tussle between Iran s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and its supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is becoming steadily more bitter. The latest bout began in April when Mr Ahmadinejad discovered that Heidar Moslehi, the minister of intelligence, was bugging the offices of Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, his own chief of staff and a close ally. Mr Ahmadinejad fired Mr Moslehi. But Mr Khamenei, who dislikes Mr Mashaei, fast reinstated him.
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Author: The Guardian
21 Apr 2011
Ahmadinejad grooms chief-of-staff to take over as Iran’s president
A close ally of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who favours cultural openness and opposes greater clerical involvement in politics, is being groomed as a possible successor to the Iranian president when he steps down in two years time. Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, Ahmadinejad's chief-of-staff, is positioning himself as a candidate who will champion a nationalist rather than a theological narrative of Iran.
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Author: EA WorldView
5 Apr 2011
Leading Conservative Website Tears Apart Ahmadinejad’s Rahim-Mashai
One may regard Esfandiar Rahim-Masha'i as someone for whom "words go in from one ear and go out from the other ear" (someone who does not listen to the criticisms of others). He was one of the most provocative figures during the year 89 (the Iranian year that ended 20 March 2011), but he never took back any of his words.