high unemployment, high underemployment with young college graduates driving taxis and selling pizas.o this was a country that it is one of the few -- i argue probably the only major oil producer in the world whose population claims their economic circumstances got worse, even when oil was $150 a barrel. that is an achievement. oil prices quadruple and people say they're worse off than they were. given the fact he was elected to improve the state of the economy and profoundly mismanaged it. with regards to the most powerful idea in iran. i would argue he's more powerful than he's ever been in the 20-year tenure. if you look at all important and military institutions within iran, the office of the president, the parliament, revolutionary guards, all of the different biz an teen bodies -- byzantine bodies, they're elected by him or loyal to him. that being said, the office of the president is not a negligible office. the president is the most high-profile iranian official within iran and internationally. do a google search for him and do a google search for ahmadinejad. compare the resu