Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Bad news for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's astonishingly incompetent management of the Iranian economy may finally be catching up to him:
Iran’s supreme religious leader, in what appeared to be his first public dispute with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, sided with Parliament on Monday in a conflict over energy policy.
The supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, intervened after Mr. Ahmadinejad had refused to carry out a measure that required his government to supply gas to remote villages during this year’s exceptionally cold winter.
In his short time in office President Ahmadinejad has revealed the true colors of the Islamic Republic and unwittingly galvanized international opinion against Iran, a necessary precondition to the imposition of meaningful economic sanctions. His replacement has almost got to be more diplomatic, which might in the end make it more difficult to keep Iran in its tiny little lockbox.
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Wed Jan 23, 02:50:00 PM:
Good Mullah, Bad Mullah...
What many forget,or never learned in the first place, is that Iran's nuclear program began well before Maudy DinnerJacket became President, and that Maudy DinnerJacket was not the first Iranian of Consequence to make the connection between Iran's having the Bomb and nuking Israel.
