‘Robin Hood’ wins hearts of Iran’s poor

June 25th, 2005 at 09:56 Björn Hallberg

Playing right into the hands of US warmongers, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won a landslide victory in the Iranian presidential elections.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the hardliner who will become Iran’s president in August, is hailed by the devout poor as a Robin Hood figure who will give them a slice of the Islamic Republic’s abundant oil wealth.
Before the first round of voting on June 17, few gave Ahmadinejad, the most hardline of the seven original candidates, much of a hope of winning. But his campaign broadcasts cast him as a man of the people, attending to the needs of the elderly, poor and war-wounded while rebuffing wealthy opportunists trying to circumvent regulations to make a quick profit. The blacksmith’s son joined workmen sweeping the streets of Tehran after he became mayor. He plays on his humble origins and has vowed to distribute the oil wealth of OPEC’s second biggest producer more directly to the people.

And he did ban advertising hoardings that showed the bare legs of England footballer David Beckham. Other than being anti-Beckham he is also a anti-US, anti-EU, conservative, ex-military, religious, civil engineer that believes that "access to nuclear technology is Iran’s inalienable right and the world ought to recognise these rights." US calls Iran "out of step" with region, as it is not occupied and in imperialist shackles like Afghanistan or Iraq.

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