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Iran’s wackjob of a President is purging liberals and secularists from teaching posts in schools and universities. Why does this matter?

Ahmadinejad's aim appears to be installing a new generation of rulers who will revive the fundamentalist goals pursued in the 1980s under the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, father of the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran. Shortly after the revolution, Iran fired hundreds of liberal and leftist university teachers and expelled numerous students.

Terrific. He is charging headlong down the crazy path and trying to stir up the hardliners.