| | + | Iran is currently ruled by the Grand Ayatollah Khamenei, the second theocrat of the country, who has a less extreme anti-Western bias than his predecessor. It is governed on a day-to-day basis by the Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who is suspected by several Western nations to be developing nuclear weapons to use against Israel. Domestically, however, he is facing questioning and possible impreachement by the Iranian Parliament, who see him as to extreme. |