Why Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Is Still Useful

Islam

On the first day of the Iran war, the assassination of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei overshadowed news of a strike near the home of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran’s president from 2005 to 2013. Many who remembered his term in office—marked by Holocaust denial, atom-bomb fetishism, and shoving Islamic revolutionary ideology down the throats of a country already weary of it—celebrated his reported assassination. As president, he was the symbol of a smarmy kind of theocratic fascism. “All my friends have

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