Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Ahmadinejad Allies Charged With Sorcery Amid Feud With Supreme Leader

Jillian Rayfield | May 9, 2011, 2:15PM

Allies of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have been arrested and charged with being "magicians," as part of a continuing feud between the president and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Several dozen people close to Ahmadinejad and his chief of staff Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei have been arrested in the past few days and charged with sorcery and "invoking djinns (spirits)," The Guardian reports. Another man arrested, Abbas Ghaffari, was described by a news site in Iran as "a man with special skills in metaphysics and connections with the unknown worlds."

The feud stems from Ahmadinejad's unprecedented refusal to back the Ayatollah's decision to reinstate Iran's intelligence chief.

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