Ahmadinejad e il "fascismo iraniano" according to Prof. Abdulmohammadi
by Giacomo Bergamaschi
Pejman Abdolmohammadi is a scholar of Persian origin who teaches History and Institutions of Middle Eastern countries at the University of Genoa. He is the author of a fundamental essay on the Shiite political thought of Imam Khomeini, considered the most objective and scientific in circulation at an international level. In his last essay, co-written with Giampiero Cama, “Contemporary Iran” Mondadori University Editions, writes (pp. 127-129) that Ahmadinejad belongs, in the internal dialectics of the Iranian Islamic Republic, in the current of “populist and nationalist conservatives”; dirigist and statist in economics, during his two governments Ahmadinejad aimed to reduce the high social differences created in Iran, offering support policies towards the most disadvantaged classes, the shares and profits of state-owned factories and industries, for example, were redistributed among the workers and part of the related actions were redistributed to the weaker classes in the form of "social justice actions". (p. 169).
Ahmadinejad creates a fund called "Imam Reza" for young families who marry and have children; it also puts a brake on privatizations by granting control of industries and state companies to cooperatives rather than private investors and its system reformed the system of state subsidies in a much more fair and "socialized" way than the Hartz IV or the Dignity Decree. “Ahmadinejad set up a social policy (really and concretely, ndc) populist, distributing social benefits aimed only at the less well-off classes" (p. 169). Read More
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