Do you remember how so many people queued up to say how Iran was playing America like a violin? How they played a smart game of politics? How they were the best in the region and would make us dumb Westerners (who lack their millenium old civilisation etc.) look like fools?

Its hard to imagine this bunch of half-wits achieving anything expect through blind luck and accident. I have a sneaking suspicion that analysts think if they can make the subject of their analysis seem more sophisticated than they really are it makes them look good, too.

A = Hominy
B = Dinnerjacket
C = Brother in-law
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KHAMENEI : HOMINY
AHMADINEJAD : DINNERJACKET
RAFSANJANI : ?

I think I’m goin’ with “Rappin’ Johnny”.

RD on July 22, 2009 at 11:15 PM

Though the empirical data suggests that divine appointment actually shows a transitivity nesting depth of 1 (or 2, depending on how you count it):

If God appoints A, and A appoints B, then God appoints B. But if B appoints C… God disavows all knowledge of said appointment of C, and furthermore retroactively withdraws B (at least at such time as such withdrawal is confirmed by A).

“You were divinely appointed. Your kid’s father-in-law? Not so much.”

Cicero43 on July 22, 2009 at 4:43 PM

;-) Thereby confirming divinity is not conferred transitively in their particular microculture: “So, if God appoints A, and A appoints B, you mean it doesn’t follow that God appoints B? How lame…!”

And so ends another episode of …”As the Muslim World Turns”. Is everyone a little confused as to how things operate in Iran?

Smoke, mirrors, mission accomplished. While we eat popcorn and wonder about tomorrows episode the centrifuges spin almost without notice. Who will win in Iran? The American freedom loving Iranian Muslims or the mad mullah Iranian Muslims? Do nothing, be patient, just watch.

BL@KBIRD on July 22, 2009 at 4:51 PM

Nice. May I recommend a slight name change – “As the Centrifuges Spin”?

incompetence: 50%
treachery: 40%
malice: 10%

In other words, usually incompetence, sometimes manipulation as a means to an end, rarely someone out to genuinely hurt people as their goal.

In the war of explanations for weird stuff…treachery vs. stupidity…stupidity always gets 10:1 odds.

Sooo, Obama is going to blame Congress for giving him a stupid bill….

Ok

Maybe it goes like this …

Khamenei realizes he needs to get rid of Ahmadinejad but can’t simply nullify the “election” without losing face and admitting it was a farce. So Ahmadinejad is “ordered” to appoint Mashai who is ordered not to refuse the appointment or resign. Ahmadinejad is instructed to “take one for the team” and he will be taken care of later. He is instructed to refuse to fire Mashai which gives Khamenei cause to fire Ahmadinejad for insubordination.

Problem solved. Ahmadinejad is gone without admitting to jiggering election results and people stop rioting in the streets … for now.

Sounds like Obama and Health Care Reform….

Put simply, Khamenei may just be realizing that he’s hitched his wagon to an idiot, not a star,

Well, can you blame Khamanei? It’s not as if Ahmadinejad has acted irrationally before.

If I understand this right, Mashai’s daughter is married to AhmaNutJob’s son. It’s a family affair…

The mullahs have been in power for too long; they know how best to play the game. This is nothing, there is power aplenty to share in that domain.

Depends on whether it’s a special date night.

Laura in Maryland on July 22, 2009 at 5:10 PM

You are on fire this afternoon.

Is Exalted Leader above or below Fearless Leader?

Cicero43 on July 22, 2009 at 4:53 PM

Depends on whether it’s a special date night.

The clerics broke the damn bank (so to speak) in backing him, and I don’t think he intends to abide by their rules anymore. And why should he? He has the Revolutionary Guard in his pocket and it sounds like Khamenei is stuck with him.

Let’s not forget that of Muslim nutjobs, Ahmadinejad is the chief nutjob. What’s a better way to bring about the freak who fell in the well than by ripping his own country apart and then completely destabilizing the region? Throw a nuke into that and man that’s going to be a nice swift kick in the ass.

elduende on July 22, 2009 at 4:45 PM

Khami’s been had.

Put simply, Khamenei may just be realizing that he’s hitched his wagon to an idiot …

^^That is a beautiful – and truthful line! I LMFAO!