Obama may have to sit down without preconditions with some other guy rather than Ahmadinejad.
Iran's parliament impeached a Cabinet minister on Tuesday after he admitted having a fake degree from Oxford University, in a vote widely seen as a defeat for hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The dismissal of Interior Minister Ali Kordan was the first high-profile confrontation between the new parliament and Ahmadinejad.
It did take massive chuzpa by Ali Kordan whipped out his Oxford Degree and it had tons of spelling and grammar mistakes. You would think that Oxford would get the language used in their degrees right. This part seemed pretty funny as well:
Legislators also were offended last week after a government official tried to pay legislators not to vote for Kordan's impeachment. The attempt promoted one hard-line lawmaker to slap the official, Mohammad Abbasi, in the face.
The scandal forced Ahmadinejad to dismiss Abbasi, but some lawmakers have suggested that the payment would not have been attempted without orders from higher up.
I just like the idea of some hard-line theocrat bitch-slapping one of Ahmadinejad's goons who was trying to bribe him with petrodollars. I think Ali Larijani (Ahmadinejad's rival for power) and Obama might be planning a little get-together in the next few years. Could Obama pull a Nixon and be the first US President to visit Iran? I can see it happening.
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