What are his strong points, being a lunatic saying Holocaust is a myth and we don't have gays in Iran?!

With all the crime and mismanagement under AN watch, isn’t ironic that we keep going after his remarks about Holocaust and gay’s comment?

For crying out loud, what would you have expected from a politician [under IRI system] to say about gays?  “oh we have them and we invite them to our house for  chelo kabab on Fridays?!?!?!”

Mehrdad

I agree with Bavafa1 but I suppose that is media effect.

Foreigners DO NOT care how he is f...ing us, all they care about themselves and how to make fun of our country.

Bavafa jaan about 8 or 9 years ago when Rafsanjani was running for the Presidency again and had a runoff with Ahmadi, he had an interview with 60 minutes with Christian Amanpour.  She asked him if he gets elected could it be possible that Hijab becomes optional?

His answer was just that we are an Islamic country and we can't have that but we can have many more things.  So nothing came out of it.  Of course it's not right and hijab should be optional but for an answer it didn't cause problems and chaos.

When they asked Ahmadi he could've said along those same lines that we are an Islamic country and just like other religions like Christianity that homosexuality is frowned upon it's the same in Iran.  The new and improved Pope has just last week approved "civil union" and not gay marriage!

Ahmadi was a lot from the beginning, he wanted confrontations.  He started by these nonsense and when the sanctions started he laughed and brushed them as they are sanctioning themselves, hahaha!  Later he said the sanctions are not worth the paper they're written on.  And one by one the sanctions mounted and when he was totally screwed and has nothing else to say he is blaming others in the Govt!

So yes the gay and holocaust comments are small compared to the major screwups he's had, but as I often like to say everyone gets one sentence on his tombstone.  For George W Bush it will be that he started the middle east war and ended up ruining the economy and the great recession of 2008.  For Ahmadi it will say he denied the holocaust and the existence of gays in Iran!

Esfand aziz,

I will agree with most you said here but I ask you this... if you ask most Iranians about that one liner for AN tombstone, do you think they will even remember the holocaust or gay comment?

So I believe amirkabir4u has got this absolutely right, this is the media effect and if it effect those of us who can speak Farsi, understand the culture and know about the players much better, do we still wonder its effect on the non-Iranian community.

Mehrdad

"Elections" in a theocracy are meaningless and an insult to those who know the difference.

Bavafa jaan on the national side when they write his tombstone it will say he became the President by cheating and ruined Iran's economy with his cash subsidies and his cronies stole the savings from Government coffers!  It will also say that he denied holocaust and called it a "myth" (afsaneh)!

Media is not to be blamed here as you can use and manipulate the media to your liking.  In the case of Ahmadi he wanted to be portrayed as confrontational.

Esfand Jaan,

His tombstone probably will be proportional to his size, tiny and therefore will probably read;

“He stood up to the grand criminal but was also responsible for ruining the economy.  Give the Ayatolah hell when you visit him in hell”

Iranians in Iran have heard the Farsi version of what he has said about the Holocaust and can hardly care about it.  They care far more about the daily services that was near free and he took it away from them.

Mehrdad

Standing up to the Grand criminal is in fact a myth!