Mr. Ahmadinejad doesn’t like to be criticized:
“Mr. Obama made a mistake to say those things,” Mr. Ahmadinejad said Thursday at a ceremony to open a petrochemical plant.
The election, Mr. Ahmadinejad said, had brought a chance for a “new start in international relations” in which Iran would “speak from a different position based on dialogue and justice,” he said, according to the semi-official Fars news agency.
While Iran believed Britain and other European countries had a “bad record” in their relationship with Iran, he said, “we were not expecting Mr. Obama” to “fall into the same trap and continue the same path that Bush did.”
He also demanded an apology from President Obama for his most recent statement. “I hope you avoid the interfering in Iran’s affairs and express your regret in a way that the Iranian people find out about it,” he said.
If Ahmadinejad could have won reelection in a fair contest, he should have done so. To blatantly cheat and then send thugs out to beat and murder those who protest is unforgivable in all cultures and religions. All of the world’s leaders should be condemning Ahmadinejad. And he knows it.
So I guess until now Iran was speaking from a position based on silencing the opposition and injustice. If he does lose his job he could come here and be elected as a GOP member of Congress. He knows the playbook.
ya think ahmadinejad’s feeling a bit emasculated…since no one outside of the ruling junta in iran consider him legitimate…or does that illegitimacy just make him a bastard?
So it’s President Obama’s fault that Iran isn’t speaking from a position of dialogue and justice? And it has nothing to do with rigged elections? Uhuh.
wonder if he still wants to debate Obama. good luck with that!
Methinks he doth protest too much. The junta would just love to make this about Obama and US meddling.
If they so against US meddling, then why use the same tactics.
Ultimately what all of this has done is to strip away any pretext that Ahmadinejad was democratically elected. He is now nothing but a dictator, pure and simple.
I don’t know what this means going forward – they may succeed in shutting down the protests with the use of force, but that won’t make the people forget what happened.
I suspect that Ahmadinejad, deep into denial, regards himself as not only the legitimate president of Iran but as a boon and godsend as well. It’s amazing what the tricks the mind can play especially when naked political power is involved. Didn’t our recent president feel that he had an overwhelming mandate from the US electorate in both 2000 and 2004?