Abbas Amanat

There is a council of the experts, so to say, that would remove him from power.

I think theoretically.

But there is so much restrictions to that that I don't think it would have ever happened in reality, in his case at least.

No.

He does check with his own advisors, but he doesn't have any constitutional obligation to check on the decisions that he's making.

The president, in a sense, is the executive power.

under the Islamic Republic.

There are three heads of powers.

There is the president that presumably has the executive power,

There is the head of the judiciary, and there is the head of the speaker of the parliament, majlis, Islamic majlis, which is the legislative.

So there's a legislative committee,

who is not the president, is the head of the executive.

Above them is the supreme leader, or the guardian jurist.

No, because the supreme leader tries to keep himself out of issues of everyday politics, supposedly.

but therefore he is not coming to United Nations to give a speech during the session.

But Mr. Ahmadinejad, who at the time was the president, would come and make outrageous statements.

That's why you probably know something about him.

He does all kinds of things.

He makes all kinds of statements, but he is somewhat above the everyday politics in theory.

But of course, he's pulling all the strings without doubt in every respect.