Adbinjabadabba: "WHY YOU SLAP?"

[CptStern]

The WikiLeaks document dump continues to kick up surprises.

A new diplomatic cable says the head of Iran's Revolutionary Guard smacked President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the face for suggesting easing restrictions on the press.

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.

Iran denies the slap happened

lol


http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2011/01/04/2011-01-04_a_slap_for_mahmoud.html#ixzz1ACIKuen1

 

[Vegeta897]

lol people over there have funny names.

 

[VirusType2]

I don't know if I can trust 'the Atlantic', but the article below actually paints a decent picture of Ahmadinejad, making him out to be a progressive with his hands tied by conservatives.

Do We Have Ahmadinejad All Wrong?

 

[Mr. Djees]

I prefer Khatami to Ahmadinejad, Bush ****ed up on that one.

The presidents don't really matter that much though, as long as the Supreme Leader is the real decision maker.