TRNN Talks to Keivan Shamami on Why Hugh Chavez Supports Ahmadinejad

Washington, DC, July 07, 2009 --(PR.com)-- In the first in a series of interviews with young Iranians about their feelings and opinions about the conflict in Iran, TRNN Senior Editor Paul Jay speaks to PhD student Keivan Shamami.

Shamami says that he has been disappointed and dumbfounded by Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez's support of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's administration. Chavez said on an Iranian television show that the people of Iran have to respect the elections results that proclaimed Ahmadinejad the landslide winner.

Shamami also lists the vast political differences between Chavez's anti-privatization policies in Venezuela and Ahmadinejad's. Shamami quotes a 2009 figure announced by the Iranian Privatization Organization that says privatization in Ahmadinejad's government has been increased 18 times between 1991 to 2003.

"So here my question for people like President Chávez is how come? How come you support people like Ahmadinejad? His own government is saying that the privatization in four years has been 18 times that of the period between 1991 to 2003," Shamami asks.

In the next video of the series, Shamami and Jay will discuss the role of the Revolutionary Guards, Ahmadinejad, and the Supreme Leader and corruption in the Iranian state.

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