Iranian 'Grand Ayatollah' says Ahmadinejad presents 'major threat'

This blog is Deadline USA, not Deadline Iran, so we don't usually comment on Iranian politics.

However, in light of McCain's new advert that rattles the sabre on Iran and distorts Obama's position on the country, I thought I would link to this story from the German edition of the Financial Times, via Reuters, via the conservative Jerusalem Post.

The story shows that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, lunatic and bellicose as he is, isn't the only force in Iranian politics and that reformers are ready to take him on, should the US give them breathing space.

"Ahmadinejad is not complying with the will of the people," The Financial Times Deutschland quoted Grand Ayatollah Bajat Sanjani as saying. "This is a major threat, a big danger," the cleric added in an unusually direct personal attack.