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Ahmadinejad roadshow seduces an adoring public Eyewitness report: Iran's president arrives on a US-made helicopter - an evangelist from the sky Simon Tisdall in Meshkinshahr, Iran Saturday August 19, 2006 The Guardian (UK) Mahmoud Ahmadinejad waves from his office in Tehran. Photograph: Getty He arrives amid a hurricane of swirling brown dust and deafening noise. A dense, rolling cloud of straw and dirt sweeps across the parched field, enveloping turbaned dignitaries, battering the hoisted green, white and red flags of Iran, and forcing thousands of enthralled onlookers to shield their eyes. As the rotors of the venerable American-made Huey 214...