MAHMOUD Ahmadinejad announced on Sunday that for the first time since the 1979 revolution, women will be named to the Iranian Cabinet, a development the news media promptly described as a bid “to soften his hardline image’’ and to “mollify the opposition . . . while currying favor with women.’’ Some people will believe anything, so presumably somebody somewhere is taking at face value Ahmadinejad’s claim that from now on things are going to be different in Iran. “We have entered a new era,’’ he said on state television. “Conditions changed completely and the government will see major changes.’’
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