Could this be the next spiritual leader of Iran?
If so, Iran will be even more dangerous.
An ultra-conservative Iranian cleric who opposes all dialogue with the West is a frontrunner to become the country's next supreme spiritual leader.
In a move that would push Iran even further into the diplomatic wilderness, Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi Mesbah-Yazdi, 71, who publicly backs the use of suicide bombers against Israel, is campaigning to succeed Grand Ayatollah Ali Khameini, 67, as the head of the Islamic state.
Considered an extremist even by fellow mullahs, he was a fringe figure in Iran's theocracy until last year's election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a fellow fundamentalist who views him as his ideological mentor. He is known to many Iranians as "Professor Crocodile" because of a notorious cartoon that depicted him weeping false tears over the jailing of a reformist journalist.
Mr Mesbah-Yazdi and his supporters will attempt to tighten the fundamentalists' political stranglehold next month, by standing in elections for the Assembly of Experts, an 86-strong group of theologians that would be responsible for nominating a replacement for Ayatollah Khamenei, whose health is rumoured to be ailing
posted by GayandRight @ 6:20 PM
1 Comments:
If Iranians want these kinds of leaders they can have them, although a shame, who cares if these religious fundamentalists rape and murder their way through the Iranian population - it's what they want.
But they must also accept that when these leaders demand the deaths of millions of other people, and appear to have the means to make that happen - then those other people have every right to strike Iran forcefully.
Ultimately, Persians will deeply regret their decision to become Islamic.
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