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Hattip to The Moderate Voice for this news about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s blog. Here’s the Jerusalem Post’s take on it and the BBC’s. So far, I’ve been unable to connect to it. Maybe he’s been banned already by his government’s own filters?
From the Moderate Voice’s news link:
“Do you think that the U.S. and Israeli intention and goal by attacking Lebanon is pulling the trigger for another world war?” the president asks visitors to the site, offering them the choice to vote ‘yes’ or ‘no’.
Ahmadinejad describes how in the first grade at school — for those aged about seven — he read newspapers with the help of adults about how the then shah of Iran gave Americans living in Iran immunity from prosecution under Iranian laws.
“I realized that Mohammad Reza (Shah) attempted to add another page to the vicious case history which was the humiliation and indignity of the Iranian people versus Americans,” he said.
He describes listening ardently to the speeches of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the shah’s vociferous critic and later leader of the 1979 Islamic revolution that overthrew the monarchy.
He also discusses Iran’s bloody 1980-1988 war with Iran in which Ahmadinejad fought as a Revolutionary Guard.
But he admitted his opening blog, which runs to more than 2,300 words in the English version, was too long. “From now onwards, I will try to make it simpler and shorter,” he wrote.
You know, this reminds me when Amy Fisher, “The Long Island Lolita,” and Pamela Anderson got their own newspaper or magazine columns. Totally bummed me out – there went my shot at a prime piece of print.
Now comes this guy, ready to bump me from my spot on Technorati as the 15,654th most read blog. Out of 52 million. Jeez. Just when I was feeling so popular.
Russell, you won’t need to worry about the Big Boxes anymore. Just worry about the heads of state.
Here’s the direct link to the Pres’s blog.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 11:32 am August 14th, 2006 in Politics
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