Speaking to a group of students Tuesday, Ahmadinejad called on them to pressure his administration to keep driving out moderate instructors, a process that began earlier this year.
Dozens of liberal university professors and teachers were sent into retirement this year after Ahmadinejad's administration, sparking strong protests from students, named the first cleric to head Tehran University.
The country's oldest institution of higher education remains home to dozens more professors and instructors who outspokenly oppose policies that restrict freedom of expression.
"Today, students should shout at the president and ask why liberal and secular university lecturers are present in the universities," the official Islamic Republic News Agency quoted Ahmadinejad as saying during a meeting with students.
For once, I have some sympathy for Ahmadinejad. It is frustrating to have univeristy instructors who despise our government. I feel your pain, oh nutball-in-chief.
But hey, perhaps this could be the basis for that dialogue that so many want with Iran.
We could offer to trade university professors! Given that we each have univeristy professors who think they live in an oppressed country, if we traded we'd each get rid of people who hate our governments and each would gain professors who are more supportive of our respective governments!
Sadly, this is only barely into joke territory.
