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Close allies of Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, have been accused of using supernatural powers to further his policies amid an increasingly bitter power struggle between him and the country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Several people said to be close to the president and his chief of staff, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, have been arrested in recent days and charged with being "magicians" and invoking djinns (spirits).
Ayandeh, an Iranian news website, described one of the arrested men, Abbas Ghaffari, as "a man with special skills in metaphysics and connections with t
Ahmadinejad's obsession with the hidden imam is well known. He often refers to him in his speeches and in 2009 said that he had documentary evidence that the US was trying to prevent Mahdi's return.www.guardian.co.uk...
Originally posted by Silcone Synapse
This is getting stranger by the day..
He's been "AWOL" for a few days after some tiff over his intel guy,and now his allies are necromancers?
Wow,isn't politics crazy?
It(politics) would be funny if it wasn't so fatal so often...
Oh good, now I dont feel so alone in all of this.
Originally posted by ProtoplasmicTraveler
reply to post by burntheships
Personally I think Mr. A is a hoot.