President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s decision this week to abruptly sack his foreign minister shocked some Iranian commentators. The two politicians have had their differences, but Ahmadinejad’s move to replace a career diplomat with a nuclear scientist sparked a new debate about Iran’s nuclear intentions.
It also shed some light on the infighting among Iran’s conservative factions.
On Tuesday, a day after Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki was fired while still on state business in the West African nation of Senegal, newspaper editorials in Tehran reflected anxiety and some alarm.
