,
one of Iran’s senior opposition leaders, says Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad, the
country’s president, cannot survive his four-year term, predicting that
the weakening economy and popular opposition will lead moderate forces
in the regime to oust him.
Speaking in his apartment in affluent
northern Tehran where he says he is under virtual house arrest, the
reformist cleric argues that the president’s populist policies have
made Iran “too weak” for people to endure further unemployment and inflation.
