Adios Ahmadinnerjacket?

[Liar]

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/06/17/world/meast/iran-ahmadinejad/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

Or rather, will not cling to it.

Anyway... Good or bad? Will the angry little hobbit be replaced by someone saner (there's a bunch), someone worse (there's that too), or does it not matter who the Ayathollas' puppet is?

Iran's Ahmadinejad to leave politics, newspaper reports
By the CNN Wire Staff
June 18, 2012 -- Updated 0048 GMT (0848 HKT)

Tehran, Iran (CNN) -- Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will leave politics when his second term comes to an end, and does not envision a Vladimir Putin-style return to office after sitting out for a term, a German newspaper reported Sunday.

"Eight years are enough," the controversial Iranian leader told Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung.

He's barred by law from seeking a third consecutive term in 2013. Russian President Putin was forced out of office by a similar law, spent one term as prime minister, then returned to office this year.

But Putin dominates his country's politics in a way that Ahmadinejad does not, observers say.

Ahmadinejad has been in a power struggle with Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, and he's losing, according to experts.

"I think Ahmadinejad underestimated the power of Khamenei, and he overestimated his own power," Haleh Esfandiari, director of Middle Eastern studies at the Woodrow Wilson International Center, said last month.

"You can step on anybody's toes, but not on his toe," said Esfandiari, who was jailed for more than three months in 2007 during a visit to Iran.

She said Ahmadinejad may be left a "lame duck" after butting heads with Khamenei.

Romney calls Obama weak on Iran

Forces throughout the government have moved to check Ahmadinejad's efforts to replace top officials and have gone after the president's closest advisers, analyst Alireza Nader said.

"I think it's a symptom of the general dissatisfaction with President Ahmadinejad that his powers and movement are being curtailed by the various power centers in Iran," said Nader, an expert on Iranian politics at the RAND Corp., an American think tank.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

[voice=Adam Sandler]

Back to school,
Back to school...,

 

[oggbashan]

Or rather, will not cling to it.

Anyway... Good or bad? Will the angry little hobbit be replaced by someone saner (there's a bunch), someone worse (there's that too), or does it not matter who the Ayathollas' puppet is?

Since he was losing the struggle for power, his replacement is likely to be someone more acceptable to the clerics, therefore much more extremist.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Someone well-versed in Chinese and Russian...

 

[mercury14]

It's not nice to make fun of people's names.

 

[Liar]

It's not nice to make fun of people's names.

I'm not nice. Just ask ms Talbot.

 

[busybody..]

STFU, FOREIGN NIGGER

 

[busybody..]

It's not nice to make fun of people's names.

I agree, NIGGERPOONZANDI

 

[TexasWife25]

I'm not nice. Just ask ms Talbot.

*giggle-snort*

 

[KingOrfeo]

Khamenei was a key figure in the 1979 Revolution and a right-hand man of Khomeini himself, so if he wins this power-struggle, I don't see how that's good for Iran or Israel or America or the world.

 

[semen4her]

Khamenei was a key figure in the 1979 Revolution and a right-hand man of Khomeini himself, so if he wins this power-struggle, I don't see how that's good for Iran or Israel or America or the world.

It will give Romney a war to wage.

 

[renard_ruse]

What is your issue with President Ahmadinejad? You believe the lies in the Western media?

The reality is that President Ahmadinejad is in fact a moderate who has supported many reforms, as well as being a champion of the lower classes. We have more to fear from someone who will be a rubber stamp of the religious elites than we ever did from Ahmadinejad, a true "man of the people."

As for the Big Lie that he threatened Israel, its complete BS. Completely taken out of context, mistranslated, and distorted for political purposes by Iran's enemies. I won't even seriously waste time refuting it, its been such complete baloney all along.

 

[badbabysitter]

What is your issue with President Ahmadinejad? You believe the lies in the Western media?

The reality is that President Ahmadinejad is in fact a moderate who has supported many reforms, as well as being a champion of the lower classes. We have more to fear from someone who will be a rubber stamp of the religious elites than we ever did from Ahmadinejad, a true "man of the people."

As for the Big Lie that he threatened Israel, its complete BS. Completely taken out of context, mistranslated, and distorted for political purposes by Iran's enemies. I won't even seriously waste time refuting it, its been such complete baloney all along.

Yes, we alll know you support Nazi apologists like Front National


but now you're supporting Holocaust deniers and people who open fire on their citizens for disagreeing with them


you stay classy