CIAO DATE: 09/2008
June 2008
The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
In late May, an official close to Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinezhad publicly accused more than forty high-ranking government officials -- including some of the country's most powerful clerics -- of economic corruption. These unprecedented revelations may signal the start of a significant power struggle inside the Iranian government, one likely to intensify between now and the May 2009 presidential election.
Resource link: PolicyWatch #1380: Ahmadinezhad Deflects Critcism with Attacks on Clerics [PDF] - 12K