Iran
President says world is becoming `Ahmadinejadised`Tehran, Nov
21: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said the world is
"rapidly becoming "Ahmadinejadised" and global leaders have started
following in his footsteps, press reports said on Tuesday.
"I have travelled to all the continents except for one and I know
what is going on out there. Everybody is eager to hear the Iranian
people's message," the reformist Aftab-Yazd newspaper quoted the
President as saying.
"The world is rapidly becoming Ahmadinejadised."
The austere hardliner said that Iran's "two big missions are
constructing the country and introducing a model for
humanity."
World leaders, he added, had started copying his provincial trips,
during which he pledges to create jobs and fight poverty.
"When I telephone other leaders, I am told that they are on trips.
Their trips are the same as the provincial tours that I have
initiated," he said.
So far, Ahmadinejad has gone on 21 provincial trips to look into
local problems.
"This government has risen from people's prayers," he said of his
presidential electoral victory.
"Someone even told me that he had vowed to say Salavats (a one-line
formula to praise the Prophet Mohammed) as many times as my
electoral votes count," Ahmadinejad said, referring to his June
2005 shock win by more than 17 million votes over pragmatist cleric
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.
Since rising to power, the president has roused nationalist
sentiments and pushed through a populist economic agenda.
Bureau Report