While the campaign to summon Ahmadinejad to appear in the Majlis is gathering momentum, some Majlis deputies have threatened to impeach the ministers of interior and education. According to reports published by various news agencies, the bills to impeach Mostafa Pourmohammadi (Minister of the Interior) and Mahmoud Farshidi (Minister of Education) will be introduced in Majlis on Wednesday.

Meanwhile, 50 MP’s have signed a petition requiring President Ahmadinejad to appear in the Majlis and provide explanations to his administration’s policies. Ahmadinejad is required to appear in the Majlis if 23 more MP’s sign the petition. The MP’s plan to question the president on issues such as inflation, unfulfilled campaign promises, management style, and failing to respond to Majlis’s concerns.

Many Friday prayer leaders have heavily criticized the government’s failure to control inflation in recent weeks. Conservatives in Iran have expressed unhappiness with Ahmadinejad’s power-grabbing actions, and many blame Ahmadinejad’s rash statements for the passage of the recent Security Council resolution against Iran.

Ahmadinejad, who was initially supported by the traditional conservative clerics in Qom, now faces many problems with them since two months ago. His supporters were heavily defeated in the recent elections for city councils and the Assembly of Experts, and Ahmadinejad bore much of the blame for the divisions that have solidified within the conservative camp.

Last Friday, Shemiran’s prominent Friday prayer leader, Hojjatoleslam Do’agoo, blamed Ahmadinejad for “taking a political approach to economic issues and misusing economic resources for naive political gain.” Do’agoo warned the president that “empty promises and slogans, made without attention to the rules and procedures governing the economic realm, will not solve any problems. They only concern the experts, anger the people, and pave the way for political defeat.”

Although Ayatollah Khamenei is yet to comment on reports of Ahmadinejad’s summoning and the impeachment of two of his ministers, almost all of the Islamic Republic’s senior officials have voiced their discontent of Ahmadinejad and his administration’s performance. Last week the conservative daily Etela’at blamed Ahmadinejad for the escalation of the crisis over Iran’s nuclear program, bluntly asking the president to stay silent on the nuclear issue. Hours later, other conservative publications reported a plan to overhaul Iran’s handling of the nuclear issue. Evidently, almost all of the Islamic Republic’s senior officials and political factions are reaching the conclusion that Ahmadinejad is not competent in leading Iran through the current hostile international environment.