The Obama administration says that Ahmadinejad is the “elected leader” of Iran.
UPDATE: A partial walkback:
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs on Wednesday said he had misspoken in calling Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Iran’s elected leader and that Washington will let the Iranian people decide whether Iran’s election was fair. . .
“He’s been inaugurated. That’s a fact. Whether any election was fair, obviously the Iranian people still have questions about that, and we’ll let them decide about that.”
(Via the Corner.)
Better, but it’s still pretty disgraceful to pretend that there’s some question about whether the vote was fair.
POSTSCRIPT: It’s a pity that the administration won’t let the Honduran people decide for themselves who their president is. But Honduras doesn’t have the privileges that come with being an enemy of America.
