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kinkyATL -> RE: Iran has no homosexuals says dictator (9/24/2007 5:52:01 PM)
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ORIGINAL: cyberdude611
Lee Bollinger, the Preisdent of Columbia University, even called him a dictator. In fact he called him a "petty and cruel dictator."
Outside Tehran University last December, protesers in Iran yelled "death to the dictator!" So even people in his own country refer to him as a dictator.
Ok... and that means what? Besides that there are people who use dictator as a smear against him in both Tehran and at Columbia University...
People on collarme refer to him as a dictator... Doesn't make it true. A dictator is someone with sole and absolute power over a state. As I'd previously noted Ahmadinejad is not even head of state in Iran, much less the sole controller of the state. Note none of this is a comment on his evil-ness, the validity of anything he believes or says, or whether action should be taken against him. It is simply a commentary on the accuracy of describing him as a dictator. Its not accurate. A simple demonstration of this fact is that his attempt to change the law forbidding women's attendance at sporting events was vetoed by Khamenei (the Supreme Leader). Dictator's don't get vetoed... part of the whole "absolute power" thing. Also Khamenei is commander and chief of the military and intelligence organizations in Iran, further he controls the judiciary, and appoints members of the Guardian Council. All additional examples of the non-absoluteness of Ahmadinejad's power.
The view that Ahmadinejad is a dictator just doesn't seem supportable despite what the president of Columbia University thinks.
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