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.