Ahmadi nejad does not deserve the position he is holding. He is dealing and talking to international community the same way he would and is resolving national issues. He is making a very easy military target out of Iran. If he continues to behave irresponsibly (as a president) I don't think after a while any foreign country specially Isreal would need any strong justification for any preemptive strike against Iranian targets. Actually Ahmadi Nejad is ruining very quickly what khatami had done in 8 years.
May be Ahmadi nejad is what is needed at national level for people and the moderate elite to find out a way out of this mess just for the sake of Iran and the nation.

The whole concept of the necessity of the existence of the religious elites to make people understand the Quran is a fallacious one. That was true when the majority of the people could not read but now considering that most of the people can read we do not really need those guys in their traditional forms. Good translators and literature experts are needed more a million times. In Quran at the end of the Sura of Smoke (Ad Dokhan) it is explicitly affirmed that Quran has been created simple for people to understand (in arabic though) so that people can use it. If clergies have been using Quran for their own purpose by interpreting the clear messages into not really clear populist propaganda is again related to the unavailability of a nice simple translation that people can use. For me the language is the most important barrier not the clarity of the messages.