Smack Down

(Fox News) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has received what is being called a humiliating rebuff from Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Ahmadinejad had refused to implement a law requiring the government to provide about a billion dollars of gas supplies to villages suffering through power cuts during a very harsh winter.

Khamenei overruled him — ordering the law be enacted. It's the latest signal that the supreme ruler may be losing patience with Ahmadinejad — whom he had defended publicly in the past. Earlier Khamenei said there have been what he called "mistakes and shortcomings" in the Iranian government.