Though two days ago a conservative news website reported that the supreme leader is ‎opposed to Ahamdinejad’s decision to remove the Interior Minister from post, the ‎‎“Jomhouri Eslami” daily reported yesterday in a column titled, “For Your Information,” ‎that during a Sunday night cabinet meeting Ahmadinejad “thanked the Ministers of ‎Finance and Interior for their efforts and said that their services will be utilized in other ‎government posts.” ‎

Jomhouri Eslami’s report from the Sunday night cabinet meeting is concluded with the ‎following words: “With the president’s remarks, the tenures of Mr. Pourmohammadi and ‎Mr. Danesh Jafari were officially ended and they will leave their offices in two weeks.” ‎

On the other hand, Aftab news website quoted a Majlis representative, who did not want ‎his name to be revealed, that Mohammad Reza Bahonar, deputy Speaker of the seventh ‎Majlis, is negotiating to reverse the decision to remove Pourmohamadi and has met with ‎a number of government officials for that purpose. This news website reported that ‎Bahonar had met with Pourmohammadi at the Interior Ministry’s building on Monday, ‎adding, “Informed sources have reported that Bahonar promised Pourmohammadi that he ‎will be reappointed to his post.” ‎

Contradictory reports about the removal and reappointment of Mostafa Pourmohammad ‎were also broadcasted on national television. Commenting on the removal of Interior and ‎Finance ministers, the anchorman for the “Bist Si” [Twenty-Thirty] news bulletin said, ‎‎“Act like you didn’t hear this from us, but apparently it has been decided that one of them ‎will stay and the other will leave.” The news anchorman did not reveal which one of the ‎two will remain and which one is set to leave. ‎

The news, coupled with Bahonar’s lobbying to keep Pourmohammadi at his post, ‎demonstrates that, despite previous expectations, the possibility of the removal of ‎Ahmadinejad’s Interior Minister has risen, unless a more powerful force comes to the ex-‎minister's aid. Aftab website reported that some Majlis deputies were gathering ‎signatures for a letter drafted in support of Pourmohammadi; a letter that was signed by ‎‎130 seventh Majlis MP’s, according to the website report. ‎