Can Majles block Ahmadinejads advance?
He doesn’t want to hear it. Archive photo.Reporting from Tehran | 31 Aug 2009 Heads must have turned yesterday morning as President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad entered Iran’s Majles accompanied by a phalanx of personal security guards and minders. It was an unprecedented move and surely not accidental, given how well accustomed the president is to image-making and sending out public signals. For only his second visit to Iran’s “House of the People” since his inauguration, President Ahmadinejad chose once again to project an aura of independence, invincibility and imperviousness to criticism or, for that matter, advice. Two weeks ago, the president made his first appearance at a meeting of conservative representatives which he had called, ostensibly, to hear their ever-growing concerns about the line-up of his new cabinet. Some news reports placed the count of how many attended this precipitous event at just 80 MPs — less than half of the conservative majority faction in Iran’s parliament. It
