easy equilibrium, a balance of power for four or five years before the tensions got too high and the dfidnces. since the rise of the reformists, his star has been on the decline. i wonder how his influence might be felt in the future? would he approve of the direction iran is heading in? that is a good question. his legacy will be a mixed one because although he tried hard in his final years to get close to the opposition, they never accepted him. the reformists around the former president, they never accepted him and even the new generation green movement, though also had reservations about him because at heart he was an authoritarian. he was not a reformist and even during his presidential term, in keeping with his neoliberal philosophy he had this chinese model of reform in mind in the sense that the country would remain authoritarian at a political level but it would open up economically and become fully integrated into the global economy. that never worked out so even amongst the opposition, reformists, people who want to open up the iranian system, he was never fully taken on board