""But....you refer to him as "a tin-horn dictator". Huh? On what basis? He is an elected politician, Bobert. They have multi-party elections in Iran at scheduled intervals. In simply glibly referring to him as a "dictator" when he does not fit that definition,""

That is a seriously debatable comment LH.

When the people of a country are so certain an election was rigged, that they take to the streets at risk of life and limb, and the army has to be mobilised to restrain them, it's somewhat disingenuous to claim that you know better, and he was legitimately elected.

If you are wrong, as seems to be the opinion of the Iranian Man-in-the-Street, then a Dictator is exactly what he is, and a particularly volatile and unpredictable Dictator too.

Don T.