I have  read various pieces by Dr Mehdi Khazali and listened to various  interviews with him and must say that he comes over as a fantasist He  just says things that some people badly want to hear and that seems to  be the only thing that keeps him afloat in the media Regarding Mr  Ahmadinejad not having served in the War it is not true but from a  technical point of view Mr Khazalis story may contain some element of  truth The fact is that Mr Ahmadinejad was not fighting as a regular  army soldier or officer but was working party as a military logistic  engineer and partly as a military intelligence officer from behind  enemys line If my memory is not failing during the War years he spent  some time in Kirkuk  Iraq amongst members of the Patriotic  Union of Kurdistan or Kurdistan  Democratic Party of Iraq   both groups  were fighting alongside Iran against Saddam Hossein The fact that after  the War he ie Mr Ahmadinejad became the Deputy to GovernorGeneral of Maku  and Khoy  West Azarbaijan Province has a sizeable Kurdish  population and later Advisor to GovernorGeneral of Kurdistan  have direct relationship to his Wartime experience in Iraqi Kurdistan  Thus indeed Mr Mohsen Rezai may not have been technically wrong in  saying that Mr Ahmadinejad has not been at the front assuming that  indeed the alleged statement is due to Mr Rezai but to say that Mr  Ahmadinejad has lied about his War efforts is just a false and  defamatory statement Let us assume for a moment that Mr Ahmadinejad has  lied about his War efforts Is it at all conceivable that a young man  from Tehran would get so early on so high up in the highest  administrative offices of Maku Khoy and Kurdistan from all places As I  said earlier Mehdi Khazali is just a fantasist who seems to believe  in his own fantasies there are some videos on YouTube  in which he says things that no one in his position could possibly  know