President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Tehran on Wednesday evening said in an aired presidential campaign address: “Advancement means improvement in economic, cultural and political fields, in accordance with our definitions.” According to IRIB World Service, this presidential hopeful focused on economic development issue, saying, “I am opposed to using this phrase without offering our own indigenous definition for it, since in that case anyone would have his own interpretation of it.”
Ahmadinejad added, “Some people had defined advancement by resorting to the foreign indices; based on which they intended to define both cultural and literary phenomena, and some of them in early years after the victory of the Islamic Revolution even argued that we need to seek for definitions and economy, based on foundations of development.”
Ahmadinejad pointed out that we are after optimum advancement of the country, reiterating, “True advancement is materialized when it can be observed harmoniously in economic, cultural and political fields, in accordance with our own definitions of them.”
President Ahmadinejad said that the conditions are strongly changing at the international scene in our favor, arguing, “The literature of the Islamic Revolution has found its place in the world and we notice today that most nations are dissatisfied with their status quo, having lost their hope for improvement of affairs, relying on internal apparatus.”