Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may find the world’s attention focused on him, but in the hierarchy of power in the country he comes a low second to Ayatollah Khamenei who succeeded Khomeini in 1989 as the supreme leader. This is obvious to any one who sees the huge wall paintings that dominate Tehran’s streets, offices and hotels. They portray a stern Khomeini and a smiling Khamenei, their bearded visages complementing each other. Portraits of President Ahmadinejad are infrequent. Khomeini is revered as the man who led the Islamic revolution in 1979 and his portrait adorns much of the Iranian currency.