a) sacking 40 of your ambassadors
b) sacking 8 heads of your biggest banks
c) having your stock exchange plummet 25% in 4 weeks time
d) choosing two candidates to head your oil exports, who know nothing of the oil business whatsover, and having the first voted against and the second calling it quits just hours before the vote
e) following a religious leader as a politician who is more hard-line than Khameni
and
f) getting the Atomic Energy Agency to submit your nuclear power programme to the UN security council