Ahmadinejad’s rhetoric, on Monday April the 20th in Geneva, was addressed to Arab people in the street and also aimed to divert the attention of the Iranian electorate, two months before the presidential elections.
At his first electoral campaign in 2005, he had focused on economic issues and promised a general improvement of living conditions in Iran, but four years later, his records are abysmal. Unemployment and inflation have increased significantly despite a rise in oil prices. And, the situation has been aggravated by international sanctions.
Iranians criticize Ahmadinejad for having spent billions of dollars to help the Palestinian groups and the Hezbollah in Lebanon, rather than job creations in the country. Ahmadinejad, feels and knows that he is released by a majority of Ousoulgarayan (Conservatives). His political survival and that of his ultra-conservative faction is based on a strategy of tension. The Israeli threat to bomb the Iranian nuclear power plays in favor of these positions. But in case of a normalization of relations between Iran and the United States, Ahmadinejad and his supporters have no political purpose.
According to the polls conducted recently in Iran, the majority of Iranians are in favor of a normalization of relations between both countries. And only a small minority of fundamentalists objects to this restoration. Ahmadinejad cannot go against the willing of the majority of Iranians. This is why he had softened rhetoric toward Obama’s willing of openness.
What surprised him in November was the election of Barak Obama and he wasn’t really prepared for that. Today, Mahmoud is somewhat outside the process of negotiations with the United States. Recently, Khamenei preferred to mobilize his own advisors to talk with the American president. The radical rhetoric of Ahmadinejad is also a challenge to the highest levels of power in Iran. Khamenei, despite his lunatic foreign policy, has never been a Holocaust denier speaker.
Aware of these handicaps, Ahmadinejad has sought to divert the attention of the electorate in the direction of regional issues. What he is trying to do now is to force his opponents to take position for or against Israel.
The diatribe of Holocaust denial is pointed to all Arab Governments which signed peace with Israel and also to the Syrian regime of Bashar Al-Assad, which recently was involved in indirect negotiations with Israel via Turkey for the return of the Golan Heights. Loyal to his doctrine, Ahmadinejad presents himself as the only Muslim leader able to stand up in front of Israel and the West.
Go vote against him, if your love for Iran is more than Ahmadinejad’s hate for the human being.
