"Perhaps Iran is ready for change it can believe in, too," said Rebecca Frankel in Foreign Policy online. The country's parliament "canned" Interior Minister Ali Kordan on Tuesday over the objections of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The "bruhaha" should weaken Ahmadinejad ahead of elections in June as his standing was already "shaky," thanks to his inability to handle a financial crisis and falling oil prices.
To say that Ahmadinejad is on shaky ground is an understatement, said Nazila Fathi in The New York Times. Kordan, whose offense was faking a doctorate degree from Oxford, wasn't the first minister to be forced out, and if Ahmadinejad loses another he'll face a vote of confidence for his entire 21-member cabinet. And Ahmadinejad's inability to save Kordan suggests he's losing allies fast.
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