Edited sentence: Both during and after his term as Chief Rabbi, and continuing today, there is much criticism of Ovadia Yosef.Critics have questioned his theodicy, his halakhic rulings, and actions as spiritual leader of Shas.His comments, according to Iranian Televison, were; "We live in a time when slaves are governing us and are trying to control us.On July of 2009, the web site for Iranian State Televison, based on what it claimed was a translation from Hebrew to Arabic to English of Rabbi Yosef's weekly sermon, claimed the Rabbi called President Obama a slave, but the Rabbi in fact never mentioned President Obama in his remarks at all