While President Mahmud Ahmadinejad is busy running a high-voltage campaign against the United States and its policies, back home citizens are wondering if he will ever make good on an election promise to crack down on the corrupt and distribute Iran’s vast oil revenues more equitably.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s tenure has marked a turning point in press freedom, which the Society to Defend Freedom of the Press has described as ”one of the darkest periods in Iranian history of journalism”. The society cautioned against the trend towards censorship and pressure on journalists.