¶ We were wondering when the Times would get round to mentioning the little problem that Mahmound Ahmadinejad, one of Iran’s two presidents, is having with his “divine” counterpart, Ayatollah Ali Khameini, and the clerical class that actually runs things in Iran. Today must be the day: Neil MacFarquhar writes from Cario. The nub of the problem, as might have been expected, is that Mr Ahmadinejad is trying to build up a power base of his own. Unlike his scholarly predecessors, the secular president is very popular among the large class of poor Iranians. But he is also given to bold, somewhat swashbuckling gestures that don’t always come off as well in political life as they do in the movies.

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