But few analysts bothered to raise questions at a time when the company's revenues, profits and stock price were soaring.
Rouhani, a mid-ranking Shiite cleric who wears a white turban (signifying that he is not a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad), took five questions at a time.
"His is definitely a poem that gets people to start asking questions at a time when people in power don't want us to ask questions," Mr. Gregory said.
To shy away from such questions at a time when others are having to make painful and difficult sacrifices would be self-indulgent.
Yet it faces these questions at a time when the legitimacy of its institutions is being challenged by a more assertive parliament, by a more questioning press and by a bloody war on its doorstep.
Though it is finally more a work of showmanship than scholarship, it affirms Ms. Goldstein's position as a satirist and a seeker of real moral questions at a time when silly ones prevail.
Hunt said: "To launch these questions at a time when the Co-operative movement has so many other problems on its hands is strange, especially as there has been no discussion of this issue anywhere else".
According to the so-called work plan agreed to by Mr. ElBaradei, Iran will address one set of questions at a time, and move on to the next set only after his inspectors have closed the file on the previous set.
