The Daily Background
| Iranian President becomes a blogger
by Arlen Parsa
Iranian President Mahmood Ahmadinejad (anybody else catch Mike Wallace’s exclusive interview with him last night on 60 minutes?) has started a blog. Would you believe it?
It’s rather poorly translated into several languages besides Farsi, but you can understand what he’s saying. Among the several subjects he discussed in his first blog post was the Iran-Iraq war in which the Regan Administration supplied both Iraq and Iran with various weaponry. He doesn’t mention that Iran also benefited from being supplied with American arms in the Iran-Contra scandal, but he does take Saddam to task.
And, on the other side was Saddam, whatever he wanted, they provided him, and they thought that he will win the war on Iran. Saddam, intoxicated with power and while receiving all the economic, military and intelligence support that USA and other Western countries provided him, proudly announced that he will capture Tehran within 3 days. The war that was imposed on Iran, continued for more than 8 years instead of 3 days and ultimately in the end, not even an inch of Iranian land reach the hands of Saddam and his supporters.
During these 8 years, Saddam fought with us and also with his own people. He bombarded our cities with chemical weapons provided by the Western powers and also Iraqi villages and towns. During the whole period of war, while Saddam was bombarding our cities, Islamic Republic of Iran, obeying the laws of Islam and humanitarian principles, never attacked cities and limited the war with the army of Iraq in the battlefield. It is sad, that even this humane attitude of Islamic Republic didn’t impress those who at world stage watched the war at that time.
You can check out a Reuters news article about his first blog posting here, and you can check out his blog here (click the english icon on the top right to translate from the default language, Farsi.
I wonder when he’ll start bragging about his Technorati rank or posting YouTube videos like the rest of us pedestrian bloggers. Hahaha. Also, I wonder if the White House is going to try and one-up him on this man of the people “he even blogs” thing and get President Bush a blogger account or something. For the record, I’m all for Presidents getting their own blogs.
