Ahmadinejad’s secretary issued a statement regarding the establishment of a council for “managing and supervising the publication of Ahmadinejad’s ideas and doctrines”. Following that news, Haji Washington sarcastically suggests starting a curriculum in science departments for Ahmadinejadology. He suggests biology students as the eligible ones to pursue this degree. Behrang takes the issue more seriously. Choosing the title “the tragedy of a civil engineer who became a philosopher”, he writes “Mr Ahmadinejad! Getting into a Volleyball team does not make anyone taller. Similarly, seating in the President’s chair does not make you a philosopher. You are an engineer and engineers’ papers are generally published by ISI. No one has forced you to become a philosopher…Please stop kidding us, we are starting to feel like we are being insulted”.

The former president Khatami is under artillery fire for having shaken hands with a lady in Italy. A video sent on Youtube shows him shaking hands of a lady after his speech and that according to some narration of the Islamic Sharia is a sin. Rajanew, a website close to Ahmadinejad, has published frames of the video and Baztab quotes clerics that “shaking hands with a non-Mahram lady is a sin [a man is Mahram to his wife, daughter, sister, mother, and a few other relatives]“. Khatami’s office has published a rather sophisticated statement in which shaking hands with ladies is mentioned to be sinful while “sometimes bad could be committed for getting around worse”. His office calls the video “suspicious picture-playing” and condemns it. Khatami’s foreign minister has also raised the possibility of forgery.