* * Snipping among the hardliners continues: Anti-Iranian Iranian Mullah vs. Ahmadinejad’s Chief of Staff.

During a speech in Qom, Ayatollah Abbas Ka’abi, member of the said: “Iranian Islam is a deviant concept. We are after an Iran that would be sacrificed to Islam, not an Islam that puts itself at the service of Iran.”

Ka’abi who hails from the south western Iranian province of Khuzestan, was a member of the Basij militia.  Later he officially joined the ranks of the Revolutionary Guards where he completed several long-term missions in Lebanon.

Ka’abi, a high ranking scholar at the Society of the Qom Seminarians, harshly criticized ‘those who continue to publicize this thing called Iranian Islam’. He added: “There are those close to the appointed president who seem to have these deviant ideas of an Iranian Islam, and who keep proposing it.”

In response to Ka’abi’s comment, , Ahmadinejad’s chief of staff and in-law (Mashai’s daughter is married to Ahmadinejad’s son) said: “Some people are picking on me because I do not say the ‘institution of Islam’ and instead say the ‘Iranian instituion’; but the fact is that the institution of Islam is varied. Our interpretation is through the Iranian institution and that is what we need to publicize worldwide.” Mashai who spoke at the closing ceremony of the Iranian expats conference added: “There are no endings and boundaries for Iran, in fact there’s nothing but possibilities and beginnings.”

* * Below: Video of Global protest against mass executions in Iran in front of the Government of Georgia’s Chancellery, Tbilisi, Georgia.

* * Twelve Friday prayer leaders assigned to twelve towns. Seyyed-Reza Taghavi, head of the Assemby of National Friday-prayer Imams policy making, installed twelve Imams to twelve cities for a period of three years.

Hojjat al-Islams Seyyed Ali Cheraghi, Seyyed Mohammad Hashemi, Reza Kashiri, Ahmad Tayebi, Mir Ali-Akbar Ghorreh Seyyed Roomiani, Mohammad-Mehdi Zarei, Ghassem Amir-Mojahedi, Mohammad Rezaei, Kazem Ameri, Samad Naseri, Hojjatollah Esmaili, Mohammad-Reza Khadem, were each handpicked by the Ali Khamenei personally. The towns are:

• Rey, Province of Tehran
• Shoot, Province of Western Azerbaijan
• Kalaleh, Province of Golestan
• Omalash, Province of Gilan
• Azar-Shahr, Province of Western Azerbaijan
• Majlesi, Province of Esfahan
• Ghanavat, Province of Qom
• Nokandeh, Province of Golestan
• Ekhtiar-Abad, Province of Kerman
• Khosrow-Shahr, province of Western Azerbaijan
• Hassan-Abad, Province of Tehran
• Galleh-Daar, Province of Pars

* * Iranian regime-run website Alef reports: “According to received reports a number of Taliban seminarians have been sent to Iran.”

The Revolutionary Guard run website Javan also writes: “Recently approximately 100 seminarian Taliban who completed their religious studies and training in Pakistan have been sent to Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan. Thirty were sent to Iraq, twenty of them assigned to Iran and another twenty went to Afghanistan, with the rest remaining in Pakistan.”

Informed sources believe that these individuals were all trained and prepared to carry out terror operations and suicide bombings and that they were dispatched to each of the three countries in order to further organize and deploy for missions that will be assigned to them.

* * Night protests and chanting from rooftops starts up again. On Saturday night, residents of Tehran gathered on their rooftops and once again began chanting “Allah o’Akbar” in protest to the sixteen political prisoners who are on hunger strike.

. Here are excerpts from a few of them.

• We will turn (September 2nd this year), into Iran Day. We will once again cover Quds Day in Green. I am now sure of that, having heard the clamoring this evening in Vanak (an area in north Tehran). The passion in the voices of my neighbors who chanted “Death to the Dictator” is empowering. Tonight my neighborhood was all about solidarity.

• Tonight, the Abbas-Abad area (in Tehran) came alive spontaneously, without any previous announcement or plan of action, people in the area came together and the voices that chanted Allah o’Akbar rippled from house to house.

• People’s glorious chants in the Amir-Abad area (in Tehran) began around 10:15. This truly shows that no matter what religion or ethnicity in Iran, it is clear that the average person truly cares about the political prisoner. What a night. I can’t believe it: the ice is breaking once again. Bravo to the righteous people of Iran.

* * Iranian nuclear expert arrested in Britain. The Iranian regime-run website Mashregh reports: “A while back, in a provocative move, British agents arrested an Iranian scientist, charging him with cooperating with Iran on it’s nuclear project. “Dr. J.”, who is the managing director of one of the divisions of the Iranian Ministry of Energy’s power plants, was on a business trip to Britain where he was arrested by British security agents and falsely charged. Due to the efforts of the authorities at the Iranian embassy in London however, “Dr. J.” was released after six days and returned to Iran.