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“President stressed the importance of the Rule of Just Jurisprudent (Velayat-e-Faqih) and said the government would serve Islam, the Islamic Revolution and the nation. President Ahmadinejad made the remarks during the cabinet session in Tehran. Dr.Ahmadinejad said that his government would continue defending the Rule of Just Jurisprudent. President urged all officials to defend the notion of Supreme Jurisprudence which has been inherited by Iranians throughout centuries. ‘I hope all those who have been deviated from the true path of Supreme Jurisprudence to return to the reality,’ President Ahmadinejad said………”

Also Sprach the official website of Iran’s president.
So, after several weeks of tension and political poker, or is it chess, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has thrown in the towel and accepted the supremacy of Ayatollah Khamenei. Like any good Iranian president since the very second one, he has acceded to the wishes of the Supreme Jurisprudent, reinstating the minister of intelligence he had sacked a few weeks ago. In doing so, he has underlined that Iran is indeed a theocracy.
Only one Iranian president has ever defied the “leader” in a sustained way, and that was the first president of the Islamic Republic, Abulhassan Bani-Sadr, who had to escape to France quickly before his arrest. But Bani-Sadr was mot pitted against just any “Supreme Leader”; he was pitted against Ayatollah Khomenei, father of the republic.
For a few days it looked like Ahmadinejad would hold the line and end up losing his job (but saving his principles). It would have been intriguing: Ahmadinejad as an unlikely rebel against the system that made him a leader. An Iranian Trotsky, if you will (okay, I agree it is a stretch). But, like the reformist Mohammed Khatemi before him, he decided to cling to the job. Oh well, now we really know who is the boss.
Cheers
mhg



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