Hooshang Amirahmadi is not your typical candidate for the Iranian presidency. A tenured professor of public policy at Rutgers University in New Jersey and a decidedly snazzy dresser, Amirahmadi is literally worlds away from the man he hopes to succeed: the virulently anti-American Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. But the fact that he hasn’t lived in Iran for nearly 40 years — and that most experts think he has no chance of getting approval from Iran’s Guardian Council to even stand in the election — does not appear to have killed any buzz from his four-month-long campaign.

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