Source: Washington Times
Note to Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: the elite in your country see your policies as failures, and they don't want two-thirds of the country to turn into a lawless mix of unrest and rubble like Iraq has become.
TEHRAN--Iran's clerical and business establishments, deeply concerned by what they see as reckless spending and needlessly aggressive foreign policies, are increasingly turning against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Within this context, many see the president's long-running confrontation with the United States and Europe over Tehran's nuclear program as an attempt to demonize the West and distract the Iranian public from pressing domestic problems.
A relatively small group of extremists "at the top of the government around the president" are seeking to benefit from a crisis with the West, because "that way they will be able once again to blame the West for all of their problems," said Mousa Ghaninejad, the editor of Iran's best-selling economics daily newspaper, Dunya Al-Eqtisad.
Instead of blaming the West for your problems, look inside your own yard first.
Low-income Iranians voted for Ahmadinejad, motivated by his firm stand against corruption and pledges to help their financial situations. The campaign promises haven't came to fruition yet, so the answer has turned to demonizing the West and throwing money at the problems.
Wow...what other powerful, cowboy-hat-wearing leader in the Western hemisphere does that sound like?
Tags: [Mahmoud Ahmadinejad], [Tehran], [Iran], [problems in Iran], [Tehran elite turns on extremist presidency]
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