Retuers says of Iran's new president and the fight brewing with the country's Majlis over the obscure and inexperienced person friend he picked to be the country's new oil minister:
Ahmadinejad has encountered problems because he is nominating close allies and comrades from the hard-line Revolutionary Guard, with which he served behind enemy lines in the 1980-88 war of attrition with Iraq. "He is trying to replace experts with Revolutionary Guards," political analyst Saeed Leylaz said.