Ahmadinejad in trouble

[Michael Z]

From the Guardian:

President's future in doubt as MPs rebel and economic crisis grows

Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has suffered a potentially fatal blow to his authority after the country's supreme leader gave an apparent green light for MPs to attack his economic policies.

In an unprecedented rebuke, 150 parliamentarians signed a letter blaming Mr Ahmadinejad for raging inflation and high unemployment and criticising his government's failure to deliver the budget on time. They also condemned him for embarking on a tour of Latin America - from which he returns tomorrow - at a time of mounting crisis.

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The mounting criticism is fuelling speculation that Mr Ahmadinejad is politically doomed. Observers have even suggested he might be impeached and removed from office.

"Ahmadinejad's golden era is over and his honeymoon with the supreme leader is finished. He has problems even meeting the supreme leader," said an Iranian political commentator, Eesa Saharkhiz. "The countdown to his dismissal has already begun. There is a probability that he cannot even finish his current four-year period."

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[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

The guy doesn't have any real domestic authority anyway. This isn't going to limit his ability to make crazy statements, which is the only thing he's actually notable for and will remain the only thing he'll ever be notable for.

[Stranger in a strange land]

Nutty as Ahmadinejad is, the office of the president of iran has little real power, and the mullahs are the ones who really run the country.