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March 14th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
He was questioned by the outgoing parliament over a series of economic policy
issues, in particular his drive to end costly food and fuel subsidies, and a
banking fraud that implicated some of his closest allies, further weakening
his position.
There were questions too about his decisions to sack the country’s foreign and
intelligence ministers in defiance of the supreme leader. The dismissals,
seen as part of an attempt to wrest control of security and foreign affairs
from Ayatollah Khamenei, initiated the feud with the supreme leader.
After making a series of jokes, Mr Ahmadinejad berated MPs for not making
their questions tough enough before making a sneering reference to new rules
requiring MPs to have a master’s degree.
“It was not a very difficult quiz,” he said, adding that he expected
to be given top marks for it.
“Any grade of less than 20 (out of 20) would be rude.”
After the session, MPs said they were furious with the president’s casual
manner.
“Ahmadinejad’s answers to lawmakers’ questions were illogical, illegal
and an attempt to avoid answering them,” Mohammad Taqi Rahbar was
quoted as saying. “With an insulting tone, Ahmadinejad made fun of
lawmakers’ questions and insulted parliament.”
A number of legislators said they would now seek the president’s impeachment,
a step they are entitled to take if they found his answers unsatisfactory.
For the moment, however, Ayatollah Khamenei is unlikely to go that far for
fear of provoking an open rift that would be mutually damaging.
Though weakened, Mr Ahmadinejad retains support among more moderate
conservatives, who back his lack of diligence in imposing Islamic strictures
on women. He also remains popular with the rural poor and could seek to
forge an alliance in the new parliament with independent MPs representing
countryside constituencies, which could make any attempt to remove him a
protracted and unseemly affair.
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