You might have noticed Jezebel has been mum on the whole "controversy" surrounding Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to New York, mostly because we assume you agree that it is stupid to deny our country's freedom of speech to someone from a country so repressed that somebody ignorant enough to actually deny the fucking Holocaust gets elected to an albeit mostly ceremonial position by a popular vote. (Update: also, someone who denies the existence of Iranian gays.) But over the weekend we realized there was a bigger, more substantive controversy we'd been overlooking: is Ahmadinejad hot? He's like, obvs hotter when he's the one dressing himself down, and not the Columbia president. But his American Apparel steez is appealing. (Has Dov Charney been sending him jackets? Because that seems like something our favorite sex addicted Israeli would do.) Anyway, it's a shame: he's definitely hotter than Khatemi.
So Is Ahmadinejad Kind Of Hot?
2:30 PM on Mon Sep 24 2007
By Moe
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Every time I see his mug on TV I think, "Heh! He doesn't look like a radical extremist!"
He doesn't look that bad in still shots...but dude is fucking hideous when he's moving around. His eyes are all wonky and they are constantly moving and he's got nasty-ass teeth. So all politics aside, dude is BUTT.
I know he's an evil shit, but he's got those happy eyes like he should be telling corny jokes on some sesame street or something
I'm glad I'm not the only person who has thought this. I didn't feel guilty before, just worried that if I said anything I'd get an entire city flipping the fuck out for the expression of free speech, yknow?
um, are you nuts? There are some beautiful Iranian men - this will never be one of them. He is way too hobbit, plus being oh so evil. The slopping brow also gives away the lack in basic humanity...
@Leiakat: Come on! Compared to SOME of the evil-doers out there? Hussein, Jung Il? The 9/11 hijackers?
Oh gosh, yes! I have had a massive crush on this guy for the last year or so. I think it's the whole scruffy, swarthy, no-tie thing. Normally I am crushing on Jewish boys and not raving anti-Semites, but whatever.
My only real problem is that he's a major midget. Also, he pulls his pants up pretty high meaning two things 1) he probably has a beer belly, & 2) he's probably got a TEENY dick.
Not hot in the least, and his stupidity does not help the situation.
Oh, and Dick Cheney?
Bitch, I'm not voting on this! The gov is already watching me because last week I checked a book out of the library with the word "jihad" in it. (Lipstick Jihad in case you're wondering.) I'm not digging myself in any deeper.
The thought had crossed my mind, he is not a bad looking dude.
@SurplusJ: Yeah, this whole incident is making me wonder whether my fellow NYers are as sane (relative to the rest of the country anyway) as I had previously thought.
I'm waiting for Steve Carrell to play him in the movie.
He looks a lot like John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats, doesn't he?
When he was here last year, I will admit I had a moment when I thought he was kind of sexy (not hot, mind you, sexy). Then I realized that he is all kinds of wrong and symbol of what I hate in the world and that fantasy was killed. Plus, I can't help thinking that his suit probably smells.
Does Shoreh Agdashloo have a son? She's my Iranian girl crush. If he exists, he would probably be very crush worthy.
@SarahMC: Being that he was one of the 'student' hostage takers in 1979, and his constant want to destroy Israel, I think he keeps those you mentioned in good company.
I can admit that GW Bush is doable (man keeps himself fit!), but this guy? Notsomuch.
TOTES hot! Remember when he wrote that bazillion page letter to GW? Awww!!! He wrote a letter! Who does that anymore? It's the kind of Kruschev-esque shit that gets these nerd panties in a twist.
I'd hit that. @so5minutesago: Bush looks like a triceratops!
Huh? Has someone been writing United Nations slash or something?
I voted Hot.
He reminds me of the antagonist in Clear and Present Danger.
Hmmmm... I wonder if he's strangled any CIA receptionists lately? Harrison Ford better get on this fast.
Butt ugly.
I think I saw his face over and over in the primate house at the zoo.
And evil as anything.
@so5minutesago:
Man... and I thought I didn't have any standards.
If he were tall, I'd be entertaining "I can change him" fantasies as we speak.
@smitros ACK -- that's what I was thinking. It's actually he, NOT Garbarino, who resembles Carell's character in Little Miss Sunshine.
I mentioned to my college roommate over a year ago that I thought he was kind of good looking and she was appalled. Finally, someone understands. I guess I'm a sucker for ill-fitting beige suits.
@Smitros:
Dude, me too!
In the past I have thought that Ahmadenijad, Saddam, Castro and Osama wer all attractive. I think that being handsome helps one attain any leadership position. Its the those born to power who can be ugly-like Kim Jong Il.
Do. Not. Want.
For the record, he did not win the popular vote in Iran. All elections in Iran are fraudulent, manipulated by the mullahs that run the country. The Iranian people do not support this jackass. Furthermore, Ahmadinejad suppresses free speech in Iran, and journalists and bloggers that express any view contrary to or critical of his are arrested and tortured. I'm as irreverent as the next girl, but this post is in bad taste.
@Leiakat: We're talking about looks here.
Crazy little bastard in a cheap suit.
C'mon people! Was I the only one hoping for a sniper in the audience?
He's kind a cute, in an Iranian-stuffed-toy kinda way. And his politics don't scare me nearly as much as George W's.
Oh, and one more thing... the surge of short man hate is getting a little out of hand.
If it doesn't cease and desist, I'll have a toon of Ron Paul supporters here in no time to drive the Hot vote way beyond a safe, downgradable percentage.
Know what he is: gross.
And yeah, he should be able to come here and say whatever he wants to say. We'd be hypocrites, like Hugo Chavez, if we deny him the right to get his blah blah blah on.
@The Reef Keeper: amen. shorties need love too!
@bimbassa: His desire to wipe another country off the map doesn't bother you? Or his support of Hezbollah? Or the fact that he's funding and supplying the savages who are killing our military in Iraq?
No matter what any of us think of the war, we should never take lightly someone who killing and maiming our military people.
Saying that he's not as scary as Bush is just too ignorant for words.
Ringo Starr with s chin.
@SarahMC: I know that, hence my hobbit/slopping brow comment. He is a very ugly man, being evil just adds to the ugly factor.
Some people are so ugly, they kind of loop aroubnd and become attractive again. This guy, not so much.
Nah, this guy is too fug and he talks too much shit!!
I would do Putin though, while wearing bullet proof vest and a gas mask!
You have got to be joking!!!?? Please tell me you are?
@The Reef Keeper: I'm just sayin', if you can separate the physical specimen from the crazy asshole, he's not bad-looking!
@sheistolerable: HA! I always thought some sort of monkey, but that's so much better!
Politics, height, EVERYTHING aside....he is completely and totally unfuckable!!!! What is WRONG with you people?
@kgibbs: Exactly! He was on 60 Minutes last night, laughing through all his responses, but then the translator had such an angry, evil inflection, it made everything not match up with his goofy demeanor. Perhaps that's why everybody hates him: his translator is a jerk...Hmmm...
Totally hot.And anyway wouldnt the REAL "enemy of democracy" be the head of Sudan who's in the midst or orchestrating a genocide and doing oil contracts with Russia and China (who are kind of the ULTIMATE "enemies of democracy" being pseduo-communist and all)???
He has this way of scrunching up his plucked brow when he denies the existence of Israel--gets me every time.
@sluggo: sooo ringo.
Way too much of a wack-job-psycho-religious-zealot aura, I'd say.
I'd fuck him.
But I'd totally behead him afterwards.
I like his creeptastic grin and the way he just rambles on and on and on about shit, but he needs to yank down on his pants a tad and get goin' on some skin treats.
He does have a simian charm.
i truly felt like an ass when he said in a press conference "holocaust was an invention" and i kept thinking "but he is kinda