Yes, both of the Bushes, in fact, but that is another story.
Take a country which is reasonably stable after many revolutions, and completely destabilize it supplanting its tyrannical but stable government with a popular party and you will see how extreme the tyranny of the majority can be. Do so, and you are responsible for the consequences.
This is after all, a region where half of the Muslims hate the other half of the Muslims and they all hate the Kurdish half of the population (yes I know that doesn't add up, but that is racism for you).