BUSH-AHMADINEJAD SIMILARITY
The experts
who have made assessments regarding the US-Iran conflict
that is openly taking place, have put Bush and Ahmadinejad
in the same photograph based on their expansionist policy
and the policy of “classifying other countries as enemies”.
For example, Cemil Al Ziyabi, a writer of the newspaper Al
Hayat that is published in Arabic in London, states that
there is no such distinction between Bush and Ahmadinejad as
supposed.
For Cemil
Al Ziyabi, “Political differences of the heads of state of
the two countries are clear. However, there are common
denominators. Because, both have been elected due to similar
factors. One reason why American voters reelected Bush was
the continuation of the fight against terrorism. The
election of Ahmadinejad was a reflection of the Iranian
voters’ tendency towards realization of the ambitions of
Iranian revolution and expanding Farsi influence in the
Gulf.
Pointing to
the fact that both Bush and Ahmadinejad are in the right
wing and rely on spiritual power in making decision on some
issues, the writer states the following, “The USA wishes to
take the world under its control through its troops all
around the world, and Iran is trying to spread over Middle
East, as it believes in absolute ‘velayat e- faqih’
(clerical rule) on the country and on its subjects. Bush
believes that the world should be rescued from “the
countries in the axis of evil” including Iran. Ahmadinejad
believes that it should rescued from impudent and arrogant
states like the USA and Israel…”.
Cemil Al
Ziyabi also wrote that the conference at the Columbia
University in New York where Ahmadinejad addressed students,
turned into a media event particularly with the university
president’s calling the Iranian leader as ‘a rude and
inferior dictator’ and the Iranian leader did not refrain
from being rude while responding to the university president
and called him an ‘impolite host’ and that Ahmadinejad,
being unable to silence American laughter, tried to offer
the appearance of “an experienced diplomat who turns hard
disputes to his advantage” in the face of angry reactions of
the crowds in the university hall but he could not be
successful against nearly 700 participants who were wearing
t-shirts on which was written ‘stop the evil of Ahmadinejad’
.
Cemil Al
Ziyabi also stated that Bush’s statement to Fox News Channel
saying ‘For me, it is good thing if the president of
Columbia University deems it an experience for his students
to play host to Iranian leader’ which reflected the opposite
of left and right wing American view, led to an invitation
from Ahmadinejad in return. Ziyabi told that the statements
of Iranian leader in New York lost ground compared to his
speeches delivered in Tehran against Washington and Tel
Aviv, because Ahmadinejad raised the flag of agreement and
peace and gave a message that his former ‘aggressive’
statements were ‘artificial’…
For Cemil
Al Ziyabi, both leaders are acting with a religious and
ideological point of view. Bush sees the defense of Israel
as an ideological matter and therefore increases his fleets
and military bases in the region so as to support Israel. In
contrast, Ahmadinejad believes that Israel’s elimination
will be achieved by ‘Army for the Liberation of Jerusalem’
as Khomeini expressed in saying ‘The road o Jerusalem passes
through Karbala’.
