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LONDON (AFP) – Iran opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi has said President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose disputed re-election sparked huge protests, will not survive his four-year term, a newspaper reported Thursday.

Karroubi, who earned the wrath of the Islamic republic's hardliners by vociferously campaigning against the result of the June 12 poll, said the president's mismanagement of the country would lead to him being pushed aside.

"Considering the political and economic problems plus a controversial foreign policy, I personally believe Mr Ahmadinejad would not be able to finish his term," he told Britain's Financial Times newspaper.