President Mahmud Ahmadinejad has decided to sack his foreign minister, Manuchehr Motaki, following a wave of defections of Iranian diplomats throughout Europe, and what have been described by senior members of the regime as major disagreements that have recently surfaced between the two. Close associates of the President said that he was furious after learning that foreign minister Motaki's violent criticism of Ahmadinejad had been one of the factors that had encouraged the diplomats to defect, and he swore that Motaki would pay dearly. According to Ahmadinejad's close circle, the Foreign Minister had in recent weeks loudly crrticized the President...
