In 2013 Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will step down as Iran’s President. A recent confidential Cablegate release by Wikileaks has revealed that the Iranian President is “grooming” his Chief-Of-Staff Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei to take over as leader. The cables note that Mashaei is “controversial” and “at odds” with the Iranian clerical establishment. The question of who will take over as the Iranian President is a very important one, as Iran is considered a destabilizing force to be reckoned with by numerous countries, most notably the United States and Israel.
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