Remember how cool it was when Sean Penn went to Iran a couple years ago to show that the collection of terrorists running the place were just "misunderstood" and their government was doing the country a whole lot of good?
Nowt that their president (who, you will remember, was unheard of the first time he "won", but no one raised an ounce of concern when THAT happened), is now essentially Ruler for Life, no one really cares that there are daily riots in the streets and that the country is falling apart...which was the expected outcome (at least here) when a small number of idealistic zealots convince the populace at large that their wacky way of robbing from the (politically unconnected) rich and giving to the poor, controlling the media, and squashing peoples rights is the best way to run a country...take note Obama...
