As the old saying goes, in the future everyone will be Hitler for 15 minutes. In today's installment, Hitler is being invoked in the Iranian elections by, of all people,
mini-Hitler himself.
In the final hours of Iran's election campaign, the top pro-reform challenger to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad got a sharp warning yesterday that authorities would crush any attempt at a popular "revolution" for freedom, while the Holocaust-denying incumbent likened his foe to Hitler.
The threat by an official of the powerful Revolutionary Guard reflected the increasingly tense atmosphere surrounding tomorrow's up-for-grabs election. It also marked a sharp escalation by the ruling clerics against the youth-driven campaign of and its hopes of an underdog victory.
Only in Little Mahmoud's world can a Holocaust-denying freak call someone else Hitler. Hey, maybe if he wants to score some points with Western elites he should call his opponent
Rush Limbaugh. Heck, MSNBC would probably
kvell with delight.
Even after the official end of campaigning at midnight, tens of thousands of Mousavi supporters remained in the streets, dancing on cars and waving green flags.
The lingering images from the campaign's final hours summed up the intensity of the past weeks. Ahmadinejad drew tens of thousands of flag-waving backers as he claimed he was the victim of Nazi-style propaganda. Mousavi's backers staged a huge march through central Tehran waving the campaign's trademark color, green.
"They applied the methods of [Josef] Goebbels, propaganda minister of Hitler," Ahmadinejad told supporters. "They used this method of psychological war against our nation."
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