Look at this weird passage: it makes is sound that denunciation of Israel is incompatible with opposition to corrupt officials in Iran. "That is not to say that Mr. Ahmadinejad has had an epiphany and is ready
to embrace Western democracy. Nor has he renounced his Holocaust
denials and denouncements of Israel. But in recent months he has
surprised his many critics in the West by challenging his enemies,
sometimes in ways that are shockingly public.
In February, during a session of Parliament that was broadcast nationwide, he showed a secretly taped video
of a meeting between one of his allies and Fazel Larijani, the youngest
of five influential brothers closely associated with the
traditionalists, who Mr. Ahmadinejad said was proposing fraudulent
business deals." But this is the typical Western litmus test: if someone is not critical of Israel in the Middle East, the person is by default reformer, enlightened and a "good person".
