Ali Ansari
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/ 5 February 2007

Only US hawks can save Ahmadinejad

The honeymoon is over. Iran’s controversial President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has finally come unstuck. His popularity with the Iranian electorate seems to be falling back, and the country’s latest­ exercise in populism seems to be reaping the rewards of unfulfilled promises bestowed with little attention to economic realities.