Looks Like the Ahmadinejad Blog is Real

When I first read that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had started a blog, I was so skeptical that I decided I’d wait a few hours before blogging about it, just to make sure that the blog wasn’t a fake. After all, Hot Air did raise some pretty valid questions about the blog’s authenticity.

But since then, Iran’s state-run TV has confirmed that Ahmadinejad is indeed blogging, and they would know.

I’m not entirely sure what to make of all this. If you’d told me a few days ago that the president of a country that cracks down on dissident bloggers would start blogging, I would have laughed in your face.

It’s likely that this blog is just a place for Ahmadinejad to release rants as the crisis in the Middle East continues to develop. I doubt that he’ll actually tolerate dissent, engage with his detractors, offer any kind of transparency, or do any of the other things that a blogger is supposed to do when representing an organization.

But you have to admit that it’s a brilliant publicity stunt.

Maybe he missed his calling in Public Relations.

Via TailRank.