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Leaked Iranian intelligence report reveals fratricide & corruption within regime
A leaked classified report by Iranian Intelligence Minister Heydar Moslehi reveals intense fratricide at the highest levels of the Islamic Republic, as well as staggering levels of official corruption. The report, made public by a reformist dissident news organization inside …
Details on the bitter conflict between Khamenei and Ahmadinejad
Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei is afraid of many things, but what concerns him most right now is that his main rival, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, seems to be spoiling
Threat: Guards changed at Khamenei’s compound
Now we see why President Ahmadinejad has seemed so confident in challenging Supreme Leader Khamenei. Apparently Ahmadinejad had succeeded in planting listening devices in Khamenei's fortified
It’s Passover, and Ahmadinejad has disappeared
Have the mullahs given President Ahmadinejad a little pushback? The Safir news agency is reporting that Ahmadinejad has not shown up at his office for the fourth consecutive
With Green leaders isolated, Basij chief threatens ‘deviant’ Islamists
Now that the Green Movement leaders are isolated and stripped of most of their influence, the instruments of repression are hunting for enemies in their own camp. Iran's leadership
The regime starts to devour itself
In the life cycle of a regime, the leadership starts devouring itself when it believes its end is near. It becomes intolerant of dissent, especially within its own ranks.
Ahmadinejad threatens mutual destruction against the ayatollahs
This is IranChannel's exclusive English translation of the April 17, 2011 article in Dolateyar.ir, a website controlled by the Ahmadinejad faction, in which the Iranian president
The dog that didn’t bark: Mullahs cover hearing on VOA, but don’t comment on regime bias
The mullahs' reporting of the April 7 US congressional hearing about pro-regime bias at the Voice of America reads like Sherlock Holmes' case of the dog that didn't
Beyond Ahmadinejad: Regime leaders prepare to cannibalize one another
They're no longer all smiles as seen in the photo. As the Islamic Republic teeters amid the growing movements for democracy in the region, bitter rivalries over the
Regime voices fear of internal criticism, revealing fragility of leadership
As an $11 billion oil theft scandal unfolds at the seniormost levels of the Islamic Republic, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has said that any official criticism











