Iran Update: The Djinns Are Back! Ahmadinejad's Men Go On the Offensive (Sinaiee)

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government is seeking to divert attention from hardline rivals' allegations that some of the Iranian president's allies, including his chief of staff, are involved in black magic and exorcism.

The government is doing so by assuming the leading role in the battle against occult practices and nonconformist ideologies.

Alireza Afshar, acting interior minister in executive affairs, told Nasim Online, a news website, that the ministry had commissioned a non-governmental organisation to identify those engaged in divination and exorcism as well as "deviant schools of thought and false Gnosticism".

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