With internal political crisis increasing inside the Iranian regime’s highest ranks, Mullah Mojtaba Zolnoor, a senior member of Khamenei’s inner circle, described Ahmadinejad’s faction as a “cancer tumor which cannot be surgically due to the costs it may have and must undergo chemotherapy.”
Zolnoor said, “Ahmadinejad refused to attend cabinet meetings for 11 days when Khamenei had reassigned the intelligence chief. Back then, Ahmadinejad asked Khamenei can he quit since he cannot work with the intelligence minister. Khamenei had answered yes, Ahmadinejad can step aside…”