From Bringing Bread to Tables To Saving America

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad began his presidency by promising to bring bread from oil revenues to the dinner tables of Iranians. Now, he is thinking about more important global missions, such as saving the American people. In the meantime, international sanctions have been imposed on Iran with increasing frequency, inflation and economic stagnation have reached alarming rates, and internal discontent is continuing to spread.

On Wednesday, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the head of the sitting administration, declared again in Shahrekord that the United Nations Security Council resolutions are worthless, and announced a new global mission for himself.

Pointing fingers to America as the party for “all inhumane treatments, crimes and violence in the world,” Ahmadinejad said, “Their actions prompted us to add another global mission to our mission moving forward. Today, the most violent dictatorship is the one imposed on the American people. They are subjected to the harshest oppression and their media is not free in reporting Israel and America’s crimes. The American people are not allowed to freely protest against such crimes.”

The Islamic Republic’s president added, “We announced that, moving forward, one of the Iranian peoples main demands is to free the American people from their undemocratic and oppressive government.

This is not the first time that Ahmadinejad is making claims of this sort. Perhaps Ahmadinejad’s first such claim was his campaign promise to bring the oil money to people’s dinner tables and battle rampant economic and bureaucratic corruption in the country. Those promises were never implemented. Actually, Ahmadinejad and his men denied having made the promises shortly after his election and began acting in the opposite manner. The fate of billons of dollars in missing oil revenues remains unknown, and Ahmadinejad and his ministers continue to refuse to provide a clear answer to the State Audit Organization’s investigation into the matter. Meanwhile, the inflation rate’s unprecedented rise, now approaching 30 percent according to the central bank’s official figures, has eroded the public’s remaining faith in seeing oil revenues on their dinner tables.

Although regarded as a controversial statement in international relations, Ahmadinejad’s announcement of his new mission to save the American people has not drawn any reactions. Perhaps the reason is that the ability of a government, which has the fourth highest inflation rate in the world and is burning in the fire of internal discontent and international sanctions, to implement such a promise is evident to all. What formula for saving the American people is Ahmadinejad going to propose? No one is thinking about the answer to that question, not even Ahmadinejad himself.