Ahmadinejad’s Classmates
Many years ago the Iranian television broadcast a film about a group of school children who went to visit a zoo with their teachers. During their tour of the gardens, one of the teachers noticed that one of the students is missing from the group. Alarmed, she notified the others and they counted. Yes, one of the students was indeed not with them. They broke up into groups and began a search for the missing person. But they found no trace of him. So they decided to go to the management of the zoo and inform it of the missing student, who also happened to be the youngest among them.
Meanwhile, in another corner of the zoo, the missing student was doing whatever he wanted: throwing stones at birds, uprooting flowers, muddying the water. He did all these without a bit of concern or awareness that he had broken off from the group with whom he had come to the zoo. But when lunch time came, his thoughts changed and he remembered the others. He looked around and, not seeing them, walked to one of the offices of the gardens where he announced, “My class is lost.”
And this is exactly what is happening to President Ahmadinejad in today’s Iran where his teachers and co-ideologue (known as the Principalists) classmates have all been “lost”.
Ahmadinejad, his teachers and classmates have been touring the political zoo in Iran for the last three years. The result of this tour - ie uprooting the land of Iran - has been the caging the vocal birds and the unleashing of satanic extremist forces. In this way, the security that hegemonists need has been attained while Iran’s security has been forgotten.
To maintain this suppressive atmosphere, the ruling faction in Iran has been in agreement to cage all the birds by silencing any voices it did not like such as students, human rights activists, members of writers associations, Kurdish teachers, Bahais, syndicate-demanding workers, clerics advocating the separation of the state from religion, human rights attorneys, etc.
But since there has been no competition in suppressing the Iranian nation, this has led to internal competition for power among power-hungry “brothers”.
This is how the teachers and classmates among the so-called principalists got lost in the zoo of politics in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Every teacher formed a group by enlisting a number of students. The youngest of the students was Ahmadinejad, who with the money from the treasury in his pockets, roamed around and thought that the class has lost its way.
But in the last months of the current administration, and the final year of the Majlis, each side now accuses the other of violating the constitution, a law which has been relegated to a caricature and used merely as a tool in the internal battles of the ruling factions.
Ahmadinejad issues “constitutional” warnings asking why the others are not allowing him, to dispense of the money as he likes.
The right-wing lawmakers in the Majlis too - whose records are full of constitutional violations - have in this round of battles suddenly become cognizant of the “law” and who are now asking to be either included in the game of politics and power, or who want Ahmadinejad to stay in the confines of his position. In short, those who call themselves “Principalists” and “brothers” a chaotic battle is raging for more power.
Alas, it seems that all the principalist brothers have forgotten that the youngest student, the class-mates and even the teachers have all gotten lost. So the affairs of this principalist school will not be put to order even by such actions as resorting to the law, which these gentlemen have already shown not to believe in anyway.