Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been accused as being a lot of things by the West. In reality, he is nothing more than another moderate, reformist wannabe who wants to stamp his own personality on the presidency and wants to try to encourage social freedoms. When the hardliners and religious nuts began to see this, they turned on him. Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi is a very dangerous individual and so are militant groups like Hezbollah. If these got into power in Iran, all social changes maintained in Iran would be gone. Iran would be isolated by a government who wouldn’t out of religious duties sell oil to non-”Muslims”. “Islamic Voodooism” would prevail and ALL the things the West says Ahmadinejad is but isn’t would become a reality – only with Ahmadinejad not being the perpetrator. Ahmadinejad would be one more green movement opposition figure (joining former enemis Mousavi, Karroubi and Rafsanjani, just like Rafsanjani joined his former enemy Khatami).

Iran is not perfect as it is and needs a lot of democracy and needs more social freedoms. Khamenei may be corrupt, Ahmadinejad may be somewhat idealistic. BUT both are far preferable to an Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi-led kingdom in Iran.