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.
At least the Majlis is standing up to their president. They rejected his previous choice for oil minister, another crony, in August. And they appear ready to fight him on this one too.
2:04 pm on November 2, 2005
