Deja' Vu, Mr. President?

As Iranian President Mahmood Ahmidenijad appeared at his alma mater, Amir Kabir University, last week, he must have been thinking "This is all eerily familiar" - Students were chanting, shouting "Death to the Dictator!" They were carrying pictures of him upside down, and on a few occasions those photos were set alight.

The students managed not only to disrupt his speech and cut it short, they made his detail so nervous that as they were leaving the four cars in the president's convoy were bouncing off one another. (It all happened at low speed and no one was hurt, so please, go ahead and have a laugh at the little tyrants expense, because hell, it's just damned funny).

Mr. Ahmidenijad was a student at Tehran Polytechnic (the pre-revolution name of the institution) when the Islamic Revolution of November 1979 burst onto television screens world-wide.

Now he has ascended to the presidency, and ironically it is at a time when the revolution has run it's course and the students are once again disaffected, and he faces a challenge that he once represented to a prior government.

And all this time I thought Karma as a religious concept was limited to Hinduism and Buddhism...