The nature of state ruling power seekers and the nature of true believing religious fanatics are incompatible with one another. People seek state ruling power mainly to enjoy the privileges attached thereto, not in order to blow themselves up. One can do the latter easily enough without first seeking a position of state ruling power.
And Iran has the perfect concoction of both. A power hungry Statist (Ahmadinejad) loving his position in life and wanting to keep it. He however is controlled by the religious fanatic (Khamenei).
If the power hungry State Leader wants to keep his position he better dance to the whims of the Religious Fanatic leadership.
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." - John Adams
