http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/15/world/middleeast/iran-ahmadinejad-questioned-before-parliament-majlis.html
This article is titled: "Iran's President Unfazed in Parliamentary Grilling" and is by Rick Gladstone and Alan Cowell.
This article discussed an interesting interrogation of Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in a rare broad casted event unlike any seen since 1979. This interrogation is considered by many to be some sort of plot to humiliate the president and to make him look bad, and if what this article says it true, it may have done just that. Due to recent strife with the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and due to the nonsense surrounding the 2009 election, there is much dissatisfaction with Ahmadinejad, and this interrogation of 10 questions was a way to voice dissent. From the beginning, Ahmadinejad made it clear that he did not want to be there and was rude and evasive while answering the questions and even sarcastic at times. He equated the writers of the questions to people who, "must have gotten their masters by just pressing a button," offending many. Basically, Ahmadinejad is on the way down. Though the idea of impeachment was thrown around, no one really believes that it will actually happen, but many believe that this is going to be the end of his reign and that the next president will not be his pupil, but rather someone completely different. I wonder if this is the start of a new era for Iran.
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