Corruption Without End by REIHANEH MAZAHERI in Paris 23 Apr 2010 23:4118 Comments Embezzlement, kickbacks, coverups define the Ahmadinejad administration. During his first term in office, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made anticorruption a central theme, promoting his administration’s fight against financial misconduct. Today, not far into his second term, the government that claimed to be the most egalitarian and most pious since the 1979 Revolution now leads and embodies a financial mafia. This, only two years after the president declared, during a trip to Mashhad, “The government’s determination to uproot sources of corruption is resolute, and because of the action already taken, the possibility of any corrupt mark on the body of this government is zero.” This, after a half-decade of promises that his government was devoted to crushing financial crime. >>>
