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Ahmadinejad survives assassination attempt! (Oh darn!)
« on: May 24, 2011, 10:26:08 AM »
Ahmadinejad survives assassination attempt

DEBKAfile Special Report

May 24, 2011, 10:59


Survives another assassination bid

A large explosion set fire to an oil refinery unit in Abadan, Iran's biggest oil city, during a visit by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Tuesday, May 24. He came to inaugurate a unit for expanding production capacity by 4.2 million liters a day. Two people were killed and 12 injured. The blast was attributed by officials to a gas leak or "a technical fault" in one of the units, without specifying whether it was the same unit Ahmadinejad was scheduled to visit. However, according to debkafile's Iranian sources, the explosion was triggered by his pushing the button to activate it that same unit, which must have been tested and run in before the inauguration ceremony to avoid any technical hitches.

A news conference was quickly staged live on state TV showing him answering questions about the Abadan refinery -apparently to put a stop to spreading rumors that he had been assassinated. He did not refer to the explosion.

The last known attack on Ahmadinejad's life was on Aug. 24, 2010 when a grenade was lobbed at h is motorcade in the western town of Hamadan. Officials then said it was only a firecracker.

Our Iranian sources point to three possible parties who might have rigged the attack:

1. Abadan on the Shatt al Arb is near the Iraqi border and the route popular with Arab agents from Saudi Arabia and the Gulf moving in and out of the Iranian oil-rich rich of Khuzestan, which is the hotbed of disaffected Arab Iranians and their liberation movements.

2. Infighting at the top of the Revolutionary Guards Corps or elite regime circles, where Ahmadinejad's prestige has slipped badly over his dispute with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on the division of authority.

The ayatollah's clique says the president violated the Islamic Republic's first commandment ? some said even the precepts of the faith ? by disobeying the Supreme Ruler. Ahmadinejad flouted his order reinstate the intelligence minister he sacked - only to be overruled by Khamenei.
The Supreme Leader's suspects that Ahmadinejad is secretly plotting to topple him. The two camps are now squaring up for a fight with the president seeking to drum up popularity by claiming he is targeted for assassination. Maybe he is.

3. A foreign clandestine agency may be responsible, possibly the same unnamed hand which for two years has bedeviled Iran's nuclear program by liquidating its leading scientists and planting the Stuxnet virus in its computer control systems.
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Re: Ahmadinejad survives assassination attempt! (Oh darn!)
« Reply #1 on: May 24, 2011, 10:50:49 AM »
It is anyone's guess who attempted this, but the death of Ahmedinejad would be unlikely to change much. The Ayatollahs would still be in charge.

He is no prize, but he is also not the major problem. He is simply a symbol, and not a terribly competent national leader. It is not clear that anyone could be a competent leader with the Ayatollahs running the show behind the scenes.

If Iran disposed of the Ayatollahs and had truly fair elections, they probably would not elect someone that the American interests would like a lot, but at least someone they could reason with.
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Re: Ahmadinejad survives assassination attempt! (Oh darn!)
« Reply #2 on: May 24, 2011, 01:42:53 PM »
probably all true XO
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Re: Ahmadinejad survives assassination attempt! (Oh darn!)
« Reply #3 on: May 24, 2011, 02:39:29 PM »
Iran is probably better equipped to be a democracy than most of the other Middle East states. The people are better educated, the economy could be close to self-sufficient, there have been regular elections, the population is diverse enough that half the workers are not foreigners. Iran is the center of Shiite Islam, and therefore is less under the influence of Saudi missionary converts.

Too bad the CIA overthrew Mossadegh in the 1950's. The damn Dulles Brothers and their stupid fanaticism caused us so many problems we did not have to have: Vietnam, Castro, Central America.
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Re: Ahmadinejad survives assassination attempt! (Oh darn!)
« Reply #4 on: May 24, 2011, 04:09:37 PM »
Too bad the CIA overthrew Mossadegh in the 1950's.

Yeah maybe so....but to pretend some of these middle east countries
would be shining examples of civil rights, freedom, and successful innovative
societies if it just wasnt for the "mean ole USA" seems rather far fetched.
Most of the shitholes would still be shitholes if the United States had never
existed, but it's an easy cop-out for them to blame all their centuries of
failure on a boogy-man rather than look in the mirror.
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« Reply #5 on: May 24, 2011, 04:50:02 PM »
Notice the 1 country with a true shining example of democracy in the region, the one country that allows for complete religious freedom & tolerance..........Well, we know the answer to that one, don't we
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