Iran Breaking: Ahmadinejad Takes Over Ministry of Intelligence?

The website DolateYar, supposedly close to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is reporting tonight that the President has replaced Minister of Intelligence Heydar Moslehi and is personally running the Ministry. The site is citing an unnamed "source within the government".

DolateYar is currently unavailable --- "Bandwidth exceeded" --- but other sites, including the opposition outlet Tahavol-e Sabz, are circulating the claim.

It should soon be possible to judge if the story is legitimate: DolateYar says that Moslehi wil not be at the regular Cabinet meeting tomorrow.

On Sunday, Moslehi was reported to have quit --- apparently after he fell afoul of Presidential aide Esfandiar Rahim-Mashai when he tried to replace a deputy that Moslehi felt was too close to Ahmadinejad's office --- but some Iranian media then said that the Supreme Leader had "nullified" the resignation.