Ahmadinejad Phenomenon

Among the IRI’s seniors, president Ahmadinejad is more famous for his fierce rhetoric and odd behaviour. His absurd comments, lack of rationality, revolting habits and odd gestures suggest personal immaturity or even abnormality.

In his speeches, he usually sinks himself into a hectic and incoherent stance in which his words go so beyond the limits of decorum that even some of his companions feel embarrassed about him.–even the most inexperienced and insecure politicians rarely engage in spontaneous outbursts like him.

Ahamadinejad exposes the ability to deceive, manipulate, and con the unwary, while seeming to be perfectly sincere. His self-proclaimed “street cleaner of the people,” can rise a bogus enthusiasm. However, his words echo hate, threat and terror for others. His words have caused the entire world to raise its eyebrows. Even his supporters in the regime are shaking their heads. And yet, as loony as he may seem, it would be a grave mistake not to take him dangerous.

Ahamadinejad’s gaffes in speech are famous. Some of his verbal blunders or odd phrases are more than simple mistakes. At Columbia University of New York, last September, he claimed that no homosexuals lived in Iran. For the word “homosexual”, he spewed out a vulgar word “hamjensbaz” in Persian, what brought his Iranian audience to laugh out.

Then, in front of people who could not speak Arabic, Ahamadinejad started reciting verses from the Koran in Arabic. He launched into 20 minutes of cheap sentiment in Arabic. Then boasting as “an academic,” he went on that from his perspective, the role of science is to serve Islam and that any science that does not serve Islamic goals is corrupt. As he described it, “Science is the light, and scientists must be pure and pious. If humanity achieves the highest level of physical and spiritual knowledge but its scholars and scientists are not pure, then this knowledge cannot serve the interests of humanity.” Elaborating on this notion, he argued that a great majority of scientists are corrupt because they serve corrupt governments who reject the pure and pious path of Islam.

He went so far as to describe, “A cause for the world’s woes is the world powers’ rejection of Islam”. As he put it, “The second and more important factor is some big powers’ disregard of morals, divine values, the teachings of prophets and instructions by the Almighty God… Unfortunately, they have put themselves in the position of God!”

Since the hard-line president cannot accept critics, he mocks and enjoys that everything is owed to him as a right to publicly call his own internal critics “goat or traitors”, including those from his own conservative party in the government. In a speech on November 12, 2007 at Tehran’s Science and Technology University, he denounced what he called “traitors” to Iran’s nuclear programme. He went so far as to threaten to name and to shame these internal critics unless they end pressure to change Iran’s nuclear policy.

Followed by a “Holocaust denial conference” in December 2007, Ahamadinejad denied in October 2005 that the Holocaust ever happened. His repeated comments suggesting that Israel be “wiped off the map” is stirring international ire and even caused some Iranian officials to play down his remarks, saying that Ahmadinejad did not mean to speak in such sharp terms.

Ahmadinejad’s bellicose remarks, at a moment when Iran is under increasing world scrutiny for its nuclear programme, suggest that the man does not care about war and catastrophe for his people. In reality, his threatening words mirror the kind of options that lead to the survival of the unpopular IRI because it needs external enemy to keep control over its own people. Ahmadinejad serves the survival of the regime, no matter how weird he is, no matter that he has failed to rally the majority of people, but in the absence of democracy, he gains more blind adherents, more Islamists in the world, and more IRI’s apologists for the regime.

Ahmadinejad is putting forward IRI’s vision for global Islamic domination. The vision of Islamic domination cannot coexist in any manner with peaceful rhetoric. Consequently, Ahmadinejad’s words are the direct consequence of the world view the regime propounds. As such, he is supported by the Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenaei, Hojattyeh-sect and some international Islamists despite his weird attitudes and uncontrolled speeches.

The IRI cannot satisfy its people; therefore, it applies the policy of carrot and stake. The regime is reaching deep into a dusty bag of tricks to rally a part of people while frightening the rest. Ahmadinejad’s crying “wolf” simply threatens the frustrated people of Iran, not the armies of foreign powers. The IRI, which cannot offer the possibility of a decent and democratic life for the majority of its angry people, despite record high oil prices and almost 29 years of promises, needs to keep the hazardous man, at least, until the end of his first term in office.

Ahamdinejad does not serve only the IRI, but his words are served as excuses for both the Bush administration to militarise the region and the Israeli government to play down its aggressive policy in the region. Ahmadinejad’s provocations serve one or both of them to stoke the argument and prepare the context for military conflict with Iran.

Mr. Ahmadinejad’s language is a symptom of his personality disorder, suggesting how deep he is preoccupied with his own fantasies. Normal politicians may correct their words, but an abnormal politician like Ahmadinejad would give an explanation devoid of intellectual of moral justification because it is enough for them that their words help them do what they want to do.

Ahmadinejad needs to seek refuge in his unreal world. He views himself the direct vassal of the Twelfth Imam, the Mahdi, of Shiites, for whom he prepares the reappearance after more than a thousand years of occultation. He propagates the idea that he is in permanent contact with him and receives advice from him.

Whatever one may think of Ahmadinejad, any perceived insanity or instability can be best explained by his unshakeable belief in the ethos of the Shiite sect– with a messianic idea of world catastrophe leading to the coming of the twelfth Imam and Islamic rule over the world. If one analyses this religious belief, his words make perfect sense but only within the strict context of this belief system. When he believes the Mahdi protects him with a “halo of light”, then his words must mirror this belief.

The belief in the imminent return of the Mahdi has not only influenced Ahmadinejad’s words and attitudes, but also driven his foreign policy brinksmanship. According to him, “a historic war between the oppressor, non-Muslims, and the world of Islam” is under way, and the IRI is on the front lines. Thus, as Ahmadinejad told a closed-door session of the “majles”(Iranian parliament) foreign policy and national security committee in January 2006, Iran must abandon its decade-and-a-haft-old policy of “detente” with the West in favour of confrontation.

Ahmadiniejad’s constantly deteriorating behaviour can be threatening even for his colleagues who can witness more signs of abnormality in his attitudes, language lapses, and ridiculous gestures. It is said that the way he behaves his colleagues leads to the repeated change of ministers and staff.

Psychopaths are social predators who may charm, manipulate, and ruthlessly plough their way through life. They have traits such as glibness, grandiosity, lack of guilt, and shallow emotions, as well as social deviance traits such as impulsiveness, lack of responsibility, and antisocial behaviour. Completely lacking in conscience and in feelings for others, Psychopaths are found in every segment of society, including in fields of religion and politics. Throughout history there have been many psychopaths, even with the norms of generally accepted behaviour, who brought obscurantism, wars and catastrophes for their people.

Institutional psychopaths, Stalin, Pol Pot, and Hitler imposed restraints on progress and evolution of their societies. Each considerably set back democracy, civil right, and free thoughts in their totalitarian states. And of course, they killed millions of people. As an Islamist, Ahmadinejad is in the same position to bring the same degree of harm for his people.

It is believe that Mr. Ahamsdinejad follows a psychiatric treatment, but he acts as if he were not aware of his personality disorder.

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