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March 14th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
The 290-member parliament, which already has a majority intent on curtailing
the president’s authority, is to have an even smaller pro-Ahmadinejad
minority when it is reconstituted at the end of May, following elections
early this month.
In the questioning, Ahmadinejad often took a light-hearted tone.
When the MP pronouncing the list of questions overran his allotted 15 minutes,
the president said he, too, would extend his reply beyond his permitted time.
Ahmadinejad at one point mocked a new rule requiring newly elected MPs to have
a master’s degree or equivalent, saying he thought the questions were
drafted by “those who got a master’s degree by pushing a button.”
The questions “were not so difficult,” he scoffed, adding that he
could have come up with better ones.
The president rejected implications he mismanaged Iran’s economy, which
suffers inflation of more than 30 per cent, a currency weakened by Western
sanctions, and stalled spending on big infrastructure projects such as
Tehran’s metro (subway) network.
Economic growth was strong, he asserted, and higher prices “had nothing
to do” with his 2010 decision to scrap subsidies for staples and fuel
and replace them with a monthly $35 cash handout to Iranians, he said.
As for the weakened currency, “the games played in the foreign exchange
and gold market have other reasons, which in due time I will explain to the
people,” he said.
Ahmadinejad shrugged off a highly publicised incident last year, in which he
stayed at home for 11 days after Khamenei reinstated his sacked intelligence
minister.
“Most people tell me to relax and take care of myself,” he said,
adding that the business of government had continued unimpeded.
On strict Islamic codes imposed on Iranian society, Ahmadinejad stood by his
view that they should be loosened.
“The people should be respected,” he said. “Do not put young
men and women in a vice.”
Source: AFP
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