Dec.30.2008

Why fundamentalists support Ahmadi Nejad

I visited one of the mentors of fundamentalists in a general session. We talked about coming election and he recommended kindly asking Mr. Khatami wouldn’t be nominated. He said if Mr. Khatami would be nominated for presidential election they had to support Mr. Ahmadi Nejad while with situation he has brought to the country, it is not in favor if he continues presidency for another 4 years. Later this view was repeated by some fundamentalists in parliament and parties. One of politicians quoted last week that in an important session that some fundamentalists who are critics of Ahmadi Nejad have participated in, they told if Mr. Khatami would be nominated we should vote to Ahmadi Nejad with tearful eyes. Such psychological war shows that every body knows that president's place for next term is too unstable and the more important is that fundamentalists know that they don’t have any option except supporting Ahmadi Nejad. Because if they have 10 candidates and all of them request from Ahmadi Nejad to reject nomination, he will be nominated and if he will be nominated, no one in the front of fundamentalism can not compete with him because of facilities he has in his hand. Moreover Ahmadi Nejad had some special supports which prevent other fundamentalists from competing with him. In this area, Mr. Khatami is the only one who is able to win against Ahmadi Nejad in election. As even critic fundamentalists prefer Ahmadi Nejad to Mr. Khatami so they have started such psychological war to inhibit Mr. Khatami from nomination so that Ahmadi Nejad would be next president. I had written previously that reformists should welcome cohesion of fundamentalists who support Ahmadi Nejad but now I believe that they don’t have any other way out except supporting Ahmadi Nejad. And it shall show where all of fundamentalists stand with election totally. In addition Mr. Khatami is  an intelligent and democratic person so that he realizes his historical responsibility to announce his nomination soon and to answer positively to the only hope of society which is the only door of exit from such situation.