Ahmadinejad: Iran not like Egypt

"Totally free" elections took place in Iran, he says

Faced with a growing power-struggle and political isolation in Iran, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad struck an unusually moderate tone in an exclusive interview with euronews, answering questions on internal and foreign controversies generated by his leadership. He started by talking about the trial of Egypt's deposed former president Hosni Mubarak.

04-Aug-2011
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HHH

The Master of Bullshittery!

by HHH on

These interviewers are either dumb, totally unprepared, or this whole interview is pre-written! When Ahmadinejad says "our 2009 situation wasn't the same as Egypt and nothing but a small group of people paid by foreigners," as he always claims, the interviewer should've prepared videos of 2 million demonstrators, the beatings the shootings and showed to Ahmadinejad, including Neda's video getting shot by Abbas-Karegar-Javid the video of man getting run over by the police van and 100 more videos of regime's obvious crimes. Then maybe this charlatan would shut the hell up and admit what a lowlife he is.


Veiled Prophet of Khorasan

Amir

by Veiled Prophet of Khorasan on

 

There is no limit to the self destructive stupidity of IRI. They do not posess any wisdom. If they had any brains they would have let Mousavi "win". Then put on a face of moderation and make a deal on the nuclear thing.

Result: sanctions removed; lots of trade and money for them to steal. A bigger pot means more money for everyone. The top gets to skim off more and be richer. But the stupidity of Khamenei and his grudge against Mousavie won out. 

Now they get nothing but more sanctions and USA as their enemy. Their only friends are Asad and Hizbollah and Obama will overthrow them. None of this surprises me as IRI is run by idiots who are good at one thing. Holding to power.


AMIR1973

VPK,

by AMIR1973 on

True. But it just goes to show that even the one thing one would think they might be good at, i.e. producing oil for their coffers -- they are rotten even at that job.

ImtheKing

Je me souviens,

by ImtheKing on

Que né sous le Shah, je croîs sous les mullahs !


mehrdadm

Pa Na Pa

by mehrdadm on

احمدی‌نژاد: کسی در ايران به‌خاطر اظهارنظر در زندان نيست.پ نه پ به خاطر آب پاشیدن به در و دیوار خونه شون زندانیه


Veiled Prophet of Khorasan

Amir

by Veiled Prophet of Khorasan on


- Oil production falling from 6.6 million bpd in 1976 to 3.6 million bpd at present

Well at least they are preserving it for the next regime :-) I am glad oil production is down. The less money IRI makes the better.


AMIR1973

@Zamin

by AMIR1973 on

The many achievements of Ahmadinejad and the preceeding 3 decades of IRI politicians:

- Infant mortality and life expectancy that are not even in the top 100 among countries (look it up) -- lower even than many countries poorer than Iran

- Oil production falling from 6.6 million bpd in 1976 to 3.6 million bpd at present

- An economy larger than South Korea's in 1979 is now about one-quarter the size of South Korea's!

- A lower volume of export revenues than Angola, a country with 1/4th Iran's population (that's right, Angola!) 

- World's 2nd leading executioner (after China, a country with almost 20 times the population of Iran!) 

- An exponentially greater number of executions within the first few years of coming to power than the "U.S. puppet" Shah carried out in 38 years (the level of violence committed by the IRI is unprecedented in recent Iranian history)

- The use of flogging, stoning, amputation of limbs and other wonderful methods of punishment 

- Women officially given 2nd class status under the law 

- One of the highest rates of drug addiction in the world

- One of the highest rates of road deaths in the world

- One of the most unsafe airline "industries" in the world

That's just a partial list of the IRI's many great achievements. I'll stop there. 

 

 


Oon Yaroo

Hey zirZamin, this "Monkey" claims there are no gays in Iran!

by Oon Yaroo on

And yet, you have over 100,000 Talabe in Hozey'e Elmiy'e Qom who spend time in Boshkeh Eghsh every Friday night!


afshin

@zamin

by afshin on

You can't be serious? Your stance is so laughable, it doesn't even deserve a rebuttal.


Faramarz

So Let’s Widen the Lenz Here Zamin!

by Faramarz on

 

Back in 1979, Khomeini came to power in Iran with the general public wanting an end to Evin/SAVAK and the corruptions and a better life for the Iranians, and what did we get?


Khomeini taking American hostages, talking BS about how Egyptians, Lebanese, Jordanians and Iraqis should revolt against their rulers and free Mecca. And everyone in the world said, “Let’s go and shut this mother f** up” and the good old Saddam stepped up to the challenge and now we are supposed to treat Ahmadi as a national hero?


Veiled Prophet of Khorasan

I agree IRI

by Veiled Prophet of Khorasan on

 

will not be like Egypt it will be much more similar to Romania. 


Veiled Prophet of Khorasan

Zamin

by Veiled Prophet of Khorasan on

 

By ovethrowing the Shah he did Iran a great disservice. Maybe he was good at engineering. So what it does not make him wise.


Zamin

That "Monkey" was one of

by Zamin on

That "Monkey" was one of the brighest students in school (ranked 132nd out of 400,000 participants, national university entrance contests).

That "Monkey" risked his life, to overthrow a western puppet dictator, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.

That "Monkey" fought all 8 years of the grueling Iran-Iraq war.

That "Monkey", believe it or not is actually popular in Iran. He lost a lot of support because of his economic policies (which later proved to work).

Who is Iranian? "Real" Iranians living in America, the country that has tried everything it can to destroy Iran for the last 50 years, or Mr. "Monkey"?


afshin

I think there needs to be a

by afshin on

I think there needs to be a global media black out of Iran.  They need to stop interviewing this monkey.


Faramarz

مژدگانی دهید که گاومان زاییده است!

Faramarz


After seeing Mubarak in a cage, ben-Ali in exile, Saleh burned and in Saudi Arabia, Gaddafi hiding in a rat hole and Assad next on the list, of course he would say IR is not Egypt.

Ahmadi and Rahbar in a cage! What an idea!

"There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come." by Victor Hugo


Bavafa

The content of his answers is only good...

by Bavafa on

For stand up comedy.

But as for a president, politician or diplomat these answers and comments are only an insult to one's intelligence and not worth responding to.

'Hambastegi' is the main key to victory 

Mehrdad