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Iranian leader faces criticism from inside and outside Tweet This Share on LinkedIn Share on Facebook Related News Iran sees big IAEA mistake over barred inspectors 11:00am EDT Iran's Rafsanjani chides Ahmadinejad over sanctions 11:00am EDT Another Iranian diplomat seeks asylum in Norway 11:00am EDT Analysis & Opinion The contours of an Afghan settlement Related Topics World » Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attends a meeting with Arab and foreign ambassadors in Doha September 5, 2010. Credit: Reuters/Stringer By Angus MacSwan LONDON | Tue Sep 14, 2010 11:00am EDT LONDON (Reuters) - Pressure mounted on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at home and abroad on Tuesday as his government's disputes with the West deepened. Veteran politician Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani criticized Ahmadinejad for failing to counter the impact of economic sanctions, the latest sign of division in Iran's ruling elite. Rafsanjani's words came on top of accusations by the head of the U.N. nuclear agency that Iranian authorities were hampering its work monitoring Tehran's controversial nuclear programme. Adding to the negatives for Ahmadinejad, a diplomat from the Iranian embassy in Belgium announced he was seeking asylum in Norway. He was the second Iranian foreign service official to jump ship and join the exiled opposition this week. Divisions within the ruling elite have become increasingly evident in recent months as opposition protests over Ahmadinejad's re-election in June 2009 have died down. The criticism from Rafsanjani, who has expressed sympathies with Iran's reformist movement, followed similar comments from hardliners in parliament and the judiciary. Mark Fitzpatrick, senior fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, said: "These cracks were there a year ago, they remained. They are now more visible and more apparent." Rafsanjani, head of a powerful clerical body, said the Islamic Republic was under unprecedented global pressure and the government was wrong to dismiss the sanctions as no threat to the economy. "Gentlemen, you should be vigilant and careful. Do not downplay the sanctions...people should not be tricked," he said. He did not name the president, who has called the sanctions "pathetic" and no more effective than a "used handkerchief." But in an address to a clerical assembly meeting, he said: "Iran has such a big capacity that it is able to overcome (the sanctions) but I am doubtful that these capacities are being utilized in a proper way." Led by Washington, the new sanctions target financial services and the energy sector, hitting Iran's ability to import gasoline and secure foreign investment. They are aimed at pressuring Tehran to curb its nuclear activities, which the West fears might be aimed at making a bomb. Iran says its atomic ambitions are purely peaceful. In a sign of worsening relations between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), its director general Yukiya Amano said on Monday that Iran had not cooperated enough for the agency to confirm that its nuclear material was for peaceful activities. The Japanese diplomat, who has taken a tougher approach on Iran than his predecessor Mohamed ElBaradei, also said in a speech to the IAEA's board that Iran was hampering the U.N. body's work by refusing to admit some inspectors. Iran says two inspectors it barred in June had provided "false" information about its nuclear programme. The head of Iran's nuclear energy, Ali Akbar Salehi, suggested Amano had made a "big mistake" that was very dangerous. Salehi, who is expected to attend the IAEA's annual assembly in Vienna next week, said Amano was not acting within the agency regulations and was not objective. Amano's latest report on Iran showed it was pushing ahead with its nuclear work in defiance of tougher sanctions. DIPLOMATIC DEFECTIONS In Oslo, a diplomat from the embassy in Belgium said he was seeking asylum in Norway because of electoral and human rights abuses in Iran. Farzad Farhangian called for Ahmadinejad's overthrow at a news conference at which he was accompanied by a former Iranian consul in Norway who defected in January. Farhangian said he was putting his weight behind a group called "Green Embassy" composed of exiled Iranian diplomats. The latest defection was announced the day after a senior official at Iran's embassy in Helsinki said he would seek political asylum in Finland. Hossein Alizadeh, who quit as deputy head of mission last week, on Monday accused Ahmadinejad of stealing the June 2009 election from opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi and of persecuting opposition members. "Ahmadinejad is no more the Iranian leader and he does not represent Iran any more. He has no popularity among the Iranians," Alizadeh said. Ahmadinejad has also angered hardliners by appointing four close allies to new foreign policy posts, sidelining the Foreign Ministry and snubbing calls to sack his controversial chief of staff whom he made Middle East envoy. Analyst Gala Riani at IHS Global Insight said the resignations were very embarrassing for the government. "All three diplomats have abandoned their positions in opposition to the regime and in protest at the increasingly repressive political atmosphere in Iran. This has tarnished Iran's already sullied reputation," she said. "The situation is also very telling of what is happening within Iran and within the Iranian political establishment; the regime is becoming so openly repressive that individuals who have spent years and decades in its service are abandoning ship." World Add a Comment *We welcome comments that advance the story directly or with relevant tangential information. 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