There were protests and all but the Islamic representation considered him too "westly".Ahmadenijad is a moderate politician and said he does not support obligatory veiling. Democratically elected President.Former President of Iran, Ahmadenijad, published an open letter to US President Trump.
"Tehran (AFP) - Iran's ex-president Mahmud Ahmadinejad published Sunday an open letter to Donald Trump, welcoming his criticism of the US political system but taking issue with his visa ban and attitude to women.
Many Iranians see the new US president as cut from the same cloth as Ahmadinejad, who shocked the establishment with his sudden rise to power in 2005, combining hardline rhetoric and populist economic policies to win a powerful following among Iran's lower classes.
At times in the long and rambling letter, published in English and Farsi on his website, he appears to find a kindred spirit in Trump.
"Your Excellency (Trump) has truthfully described the US political system and electoral structure as corrupt and anti-public," he writes.
But much of the letter is spent exhorting Trump to end interventions in the Middle East and ditch the "arrogance" of past US administrations.
Ahmadinejad also takes issue with Trump's visa ban on seven Muslim-majority countries, including Iran.
"The presence and constructive effort of the elite and scientists of different nations, including the million-plus population of my Iranian compatriots has had a major role in the development of the US... the contemporary US belongs to all nations."
He also finishes with a short lecture on respecting women -- a possible reference to Trump's recorded claims that he has sexually assaulted some.
"The great men of history have paid the highest level of respect to women and recognised their God-given capabilities," Ahmadinejad writes.
Ahmadinejad has a fondness for writing to world leaders, having sent letters to former US president Barack Obama, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the pope -- as well as an 18-page missive to previous US leader George W. Bush.
When Trump was elected in November, many Iranians joked about the similarities to their former president, whose tenure ended in 2013.
"When Ahmadinejad said that he intended to export his method of managing the world, we didn't take him seriously..." wrote one bemused commenter on social media."
Iran's Ahmadinejad writes open letter to Trump
What similarities exactly? Does he want to destroy Israel? Does he murder gays and political opponents? And respecting women...is that what the Iranian religious police do to women who don't wear the hijab?
I have to think you are just trying to be funny here.....
No wonder the Iranians suffer the way they do.....
Democratically elected my ass, there theocratic system is one in which all national candidates must be pre-approved by the Guardian Council, one where half of the Guardian Council is selected directly by the Supreme Leader and the other half are selected by the Majilis (who again are pre-screened by the Guardian Council) out of a list of jurists who are selected by the head of the Judiciary who is selected directly by the Supreme Leader, and where the Assembly of Experts who choose the Supreme Leader are chosen amongst a pre-screened list vetted by the Guardian Council, and an expediency council which solves disputes between the pre-screened Majilis and the directly and indirectly selected Guardian Council are selected directly by the Supreme Leader
It's a closed circle of power in which the Supreme Leader rules . . . well Supreme.
Those protesters were murdered in the streets Iran is not democratic in any shape, matter, or form, they are an overtly oppressive authoritarian theocratic dictatorship.
average for a shariah shit hole