Oh well. If Ahmadinejad wants to get toppled before the US has the chance to lob missiles at him, it's all for the best.
There is as much chance of Iran jacking up their crude oil production to pre-Shah levels as there is of them making nuclear weapons within 5 years ie vanishingly small.
The country is paralysed in terms of making decisions and practically unable to implement the few they do make: that's the reality I've been on the wrong end of for the last six years, since convincing them of the requirement for a Middle East crude oil price benchmark price aka the mythical "Iran Oil Bourse" project. "Any economic unit can emit money. The serious problem is to get it accepted" Hyman Minsky
