Iran Snapshot: All You Need to Know About "Ahmadinejad's Sorcerer" (Azarmehr)

Potkin Azarmehr offers this information on his blog:

The pro-Ayatollah Khamenei website, Shafaf (Clear!) claims to have further information on Abbas Ghaffari, the man claimed to be Ahmadinejad's exorcist who was arrested last week. The article includes a photo of him and a handwritten letter to his friends which the Shafaf article suggests is Ghaffari's own handwriting.

So here is a summary of what the Shafaf article has revealed about Ghaffari, extracted from this alleged handwritten letter:

- He was born in 1953 in Rostam Abad
- His father was a debt/ransom collector who did not know the identity of his real parents
- His father became a police constable and married his mother who was a prostitute
- His mother had several illegitimate children from other local men and his sisters became prostitutes too
- His bastard brothers became thieves and conmen
- After the 1979 Islamic revolution, his sisters had to give up prostitution, wear a veil and stay home
- After the 1979 Islamic revolution, he and his family pretended to be pious and religious

The article continues, by quoting the unknown recipient of the alleged letter, that Ghaffari became a Satanist in the city of Ahvaz --- although it doesn't say when --- and learned his witchcraft from another Satanist in six months.

[Presidential advisor Esfandiar Rahim] Mashaei's circle, now referred to by Khamenei supporters, as the "deviant current" within the government, are supposed to have consulted Ghaffari on a range of issues which included fortune-telling and government policy advice.

If being a Satanist, child of a prostitute and a ransom collector whose brothers and sisters were thieves and prostitutes was not enough ammunition for character assassination, the article throws in one more accusation by the unknown friend for good measure....

Abbas Ghaffari the sorcerer pretends to be a Muslim and claims to know the Koran and other holy Islamic texts by heart, but he is Jewish and wears a Star of David.