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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
There was an article about Iran in the Globe on Saturday. This Ahmadinejad character apparently isn't too popular. He has flushed the economy of the country with some crazy policies like increasing worker's salaries by 40%, which lead to wicked inflation and unemployment. They've even had gasoline shortages. They've shown student protests against him on state television, which is run by the religious nuts (who are the real power). And the young people don't like him at all, which is a problem, because 70% (wow) of the people are under 30 years old.
Obviously I'm no expert and I just read one article, but it sounds like his time in the big chair won't last too long.
But for the time being he is building a fancy mosque out in the sticks, and he expects some guy who disappeared a thousand years ago will one day climb out the well at that mosque, and Jesus will be with him.
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That's my understanding too--which is yet another way in which he benefits from a belligerent stance toward the U.S., which everyone can agree that they hate. Whether it's a gamble that will pay off--who knows.
I'm inclined to say the world would be better off without him in the "big chair" as you put it--but I'm not enough of a student of Iranian politics to know who would replace him. It could be a "devil you know" scenario, I guess.