New blogger on the scene!!
Reuters reports about a new and exciting blogger: Iran’s president has launched a Web log, using his first entry to recount his poor upbringing and ask visitors to the site if they think the United States and Israel want to start a new world war. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose speeches are riddled with anti-U.S. rhetoric, also ...
Reuters reports about a new and exciting blogger: Iran's president has launched a Web log, using his first entry to recount his poor upbringing and ask visitors to the site if they think the United States and Israel want to start a new world war. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose speeches are riddled with anti-U.S. rhetoric, also described how he was angered by American meddling in Iran even when he was at elementary school. Ahmadinejad swept to a surprise victory in last year's presidential race by promising the country's poor a fairer share of Iran's oil wealth and emphasizing his own humble origins that led many to vote for him as an "outsider" to Iran's ruling elite. "During the era that ... living in a city was perfection, I was born in a poor family in a remote village," he wrote in a blog dated Friday, after opening with Islamic greetings. Here's a link to Ahmadinejad's first post, which ends by confessing, "I will continue this topic later on as it took long in the beginning. From now onwards, I will try to make it shorter and simpler." To which I can only say, as a fellow blogger, good God, yes. The blog is worth checking out for Ahmadinejad's... interesting interpretation of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomenei's post-revolution strategy of political inclusion. Surprisingly, Ahmadinejad's poll shows a bare majority disagreeing with the contention that "the US and Israeli intention and goal by attacking Lebanon is pulling the trigger for another word (sic) war."
Reuters reports about a new and exciting blogger:
Iran’s president has launched a Web log, using his first entry to recount his poor upbringing and ask visitors to the site if they think the United States and Israel want to start a new world war. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose speeches are riddled with anti-U.S. rhetoric, also described how he was angered by American meddling in Iran even when he was at elementary school. Ahmadinejad swept to a surprise victory in last year’s presidential race by promising the country’s poor a fairer share of Iran’s oil wealth and emphasizing his own humble origins that led many to vote for him as an “outsider” to Iran’s ruling elite. “During the era that … living in a city was perfection, I was born in a poor family in a remote village,” he wrote in a blog dated Friday, after opening with Islamic greetings.
Here’s a link to Ahmadinejad’s first post, which ends by confessing, “I will continue this topic later on as it took long in the beginning. From now onwards, I will try to make it shorter and simpler.” To which I can only say, as a fellow blogger, good God, yes. The blog is worth checking out for Ahmadinejad’s… interesting interpretation of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomenei’s post-revolution strategy of political inclusion. Surprisingly, Ahmadinejad’s poll shows a bare majority disagreeing with the contention that “the US and Israeli intention and goal by attacking Lebanon is pulling the trigger for another word (sic) war.”
Daniel W. Drezner is a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and co-host of the Space the Nation podcast. Twitter: @dandrezner
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