Reply #23: Hes had a terrible first few months and it will get worse [View All]

His lack of experience and competence is actually fun to watch. He makes statements off the cuff that drive people to distraction, he nominated people for cabinet posts with no experience beyond serving in the revolutionary guards and has got himself in a position that I would hardly have expected. Even though the hardliners took back the Parliament by preventing a free election they have actually found this guy to be too much for even them.

They are talking openly of his impeachment. Hardliners impeaching another hardliner. Its really something to watch.

The old saying "you get what you pay for" never sounded more true. By preventing and limiting the choices for people to vote for in the last election they wound up with this guy who is finding ways to turn his government and his country into a laughingstock beyond the reputation it already found itself.

Even more remarkable is that this guy has very little power overall. The power rests in un-elected clerics who the majority of the people in Iran despise. In my last visit there the venom which people spouted at the clerics in private was remarkable.