An Indian research educationalist scholar Yoginder Sikand recently visiting Iran to attend a Conference in his long article appearing in series in a renown Pakistani daily says that much to his pleasant surprise he found Iran totally a different place contrary to what he had imaged reading Indian press and watching western TV channels. In his article he writes the most impressed he was from the Iranian President Ahmadinejad. He writes the Iranian President’s austerity is proverbial. He quotes that once an American TV question him that when he looks into the mirror what does he say to himself. Ahmadnejad replied that he sees the person in the mirror and he tells that person to remember that he was no more than a small servant of the Iranian citizens”. On becoming president according to the research article he donated all the valuable Persian rugs that graced the Presidency to a mosque in Tehran. He did away with the opulent lounge for visitors, replacing it with a simple room with the barest of wooden furniture. He ordered that the President’s special aircraft be converted into a cargo place in order to lighten the burden on the public exchequer and he himself now flies in ordinary commercial airlines. On many occasion he has joined the cleaning staff of Tehran municipality to clean the streets where his house is located. His own personal assets are modest by any standards. He owns a car manufactured thee decades ago and a small house that he inherited from his father located in one of the most deprived quarters of Tehran where he still lives. Finding no remotest mention in the whole article at all if Ahmadinejad had got allotted any large size land in the capital in violation of rules in the name of Form House around it built costly roads on development authority expense but where never are produced and supplied to the market any vegetables fruits for which purpose the land was taken, I wish alas Ahmadinejad had been my President.
Re: I wish he was my President
wow... if what you said is really true then he is the best leader alive...