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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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Ahmadinejad Met With New Black Panthers, Farrakhan In New York

Ryan J. Reilly | September 27, 2010, 3:04PM

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad met with Louis Farrakhan and members of the New Black Panther Party during his trip to the U.S., the New York Post reported.

During his trip, Ahmadinejad "wore the same tacky suit and shirt all week" and took every precaution to keep himself safe. Bulletproof glass was installed over room windows, he left through the employee entrance without stepping foot in the lobby of his hotel, and kept his head covered with a white cloth, the newspaper reported.

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