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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad returned home Friday evening from his tour of America. He asked people not to come to the airport to welcome his arrival but go to the mosques and say thanks prayer to God for his victories.

TEHRAN Times - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad invited President Bush to speak at an Iranian university if the American leader ever traveled to the Islamic Republic, state-run television reported Friday. ""If their president plans to travel to Iran, we will allow him to make a speech"" at a university, Ahmadinejad told the IRIB earlier this week before leaving New York to travel to South America.

IRNA - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Friday evening that displaying Iran's grandeur was the greatest achievement of his tour to the American continent.

Meanwhile, addressing thousands of Tehrani worshipers at Tehran University campus, Jannati focused on President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's attendance at United Nations General Assembly, saying that Ahmadinejad scored another victory during his stay in New York. Referring to President Ahmadinejad's presence at Columbia University, Ayatollah Jannati said, "Hurrah Dr. Ahmadinejad who did not lose his temper, did not take revenge by acting similarly, and gave his address modestly, so that the university students attending the meeting kept on applauding him on numerous occasions till the end of the session, which meant pulling the Columbia University Chancellor's leg." He added, "In accordance with the result of an opinion poll conducted after that meeting, 77% of the students believe President Ahmadinejad was right, and this is a document revealing the US and Israeli media and politicians' lies."

IRNA - Iranian lawmakers on Saturday labeled the US army and CIA as terrorist groups.

The Portrait of the dictator as a righteous man

Unlike what Bollinger said at his speech in Columbia University, Ahmadinejad has no "sign of a dictator". To find the characteristics of a dictator in Iran's president one should search deep inside him and read between the lines of his behavior.

It is quite strange that the new dictators of our age (except Putin) do not follow the clichés of dictatorship manner. On the paper, Ahmadinejad and Bush are both good people, highly religious, doing their best to save the world from injustice. Ahmadinejad dines with journalists, speaks for a half an hour about the relationship between man and God and defines the mission of human on earth as pursuit of love, kindness and dignity. We have heard the same lecture from Bush before the invasion of US to Iraq and after huge massacre of innocent Iraqi people.

According to this discourse, filtering of internet is a "moral" act to immune the community from the rotten world and execution of criminals in the public is a virtuous deed.

Nicholas Kamm in his article, "My Dinner with Ahmadinejad" (published on Sept. 25 in TIME) is suspicious about the president, but through his writing you cannot deny his fascination to Ahmadinejad's "calm and fluent words" and "the slightly mysterious smile that never leaves his face" (italic is mine). Kamm's article ends when Ahmadinejad "bows deeply and heads upstairs."

I think Ahmadinejad knows the power of his smile and demagogic behavior. He won the presidential election with the same strategy and there is a possibility of cheating the world with the same one.

Why Ahmadinejad Laughs

While many Iranians feel ashamed and humiliated after Ahmadinejad's scandalous speech in Columbia University, a new wave of propaganda has been started inside the country praising the president for his new international achievements. Even while I am writing this commentary, the First Television Channel of Iran is replaying the censored copy of the lecture to prove the popularity of Ahmadinejad in the world. Of course many reformers has called Ahmadinejad's lecture a disgrace for Iran but their voice is too weak to be heard.

After just one hour search inside internet I understood what IRNA (Islamic Republic News Agency) has described as "standing ovation of the audience" was nothing but the angry shouts of the student groups who planned mass protests outside the hall denouncing him as the new Hitler.

Now I know before President Ahmadinejad's address, university President Lee Bollinger in a brief introduction called him "petty and cruel dictator", "astonishingly uneducated", "ridiculous" and questioned whether he would "have the intellectual courage to answer [these] questions" but IRNA feel confident enough to reflect the above issue as a warm welcome (!): "[He] told the audience that they would have the chance to hear Iran's stands as the Iranian President would put them forth. He said that the Iranians are a peace loving nation; they hate war, and all types of aggression. The audience on repeated occasion applauded Ahmadinejad when he touched on international crises."


Today Kayhan (the official newspaper of the government and the conservative party) published a picture of mass protests against Ahmadinejad in the NY. But the first title of the newspaper was: "Shock in NY; The Logic of Iran Enlightened" (see the picture).

By the way, Ahmadinejad with his "Cheshire cat smile" (as Tony Karon has described him in TIME) gained what he wanted from this meeting: the victory of being on the stage, having microphone for the best part of an hour, becoming the first news of Yahoo and the 7th top searches of the day.