In Friday Sermon, Iranian Guardian Council Chairman Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati Mocks Obama, Says He Wishes Someone Would "'Waste' a Bullet" on Israeli FM Tzipi Livni, and Incites Against Mubarak, Saying "Sometimes We See [Mubarak] Obeying America, And Sometimes We See That He Is an Ally of Israel"

In his Friday, January 16, 2009 sermon, Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati gave the regime's main sermon, at Tehran University. Jannati, who is secretary of the regime's Guardian Council, holds a key regime post; in the capacity of his position, he has the power to reject candidates in elections, and can also reject laws that the Majlis has already approved if he thinks that they are not shari'a-compliant. Jannati is an official mouthpiece of the regime, and the views that he expresses in his sermons are explicitly those of the regime. ...