Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad hit back at his critics, saying they were less intelligent than goats in comments carried by a reformist newspaper on Sunday. Ahmadinejad “has harshly criticised ‘the ones who mock the popular approach of the government and the president with an intellectual attitude’,” Etemad Melli reported. “Ahmadinejad described these people’s understanding as less than a goat’s,” the report said, adding the president had made the comments during a trip this week to northeastern province of South Khorasan.