Yes, you did so in June 2002, after the anti-Chavez coup (four years after Chavez got elected). Let's not wait till a coup against Ahmadinejad or something like that happens.
By now, we have enough to go on to make a preliminary judgment about what the Ahmadinejad administration is up to, having seen what it was able to carry out, what it attempted but got blocked by what Tariq Ali calls the "mullah–bazaari nexus," what it is planning on doing, and so on.
Ali may be right that Ahmadinejad won't be able to do what he set out to do. Iran is a tough country to run: "Students are disaffected, labour rebellious, the Arab south-west, Kurdish and Azeri north, and Baluch south-east simmering. There is ample material in this maze for every kind of domestic and imperial intrigue to topple the unwelcome victor of a popular contest" (at <http://www.newleftreview.net/NLR27201.shtml>). Note that the Solidarity Center is already at work on Iranian labor. The Arab power elite, unlike the Arab streets, fear Ahmadinejad and is offering themselves to Washington for a regime change campaign against Iran. It's impossible to evaluate his chances from here. He may end up compromising himself, too. But I'm willing to give him a chance, given the alternatives, even while criticizing his errors.
-- Yoshie <http://montages.blogspot.com/> <http://mrzine.org> <http://monthlyreview.org/>