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Is Trump hoping for another Ahmadinejad in Tehran?

Iranian media paid less than expected attention to President Trump’s inauguration as it was busy covering the aftermath of the deadly collapse of a high-rise in Tehran.

U.S. President Donald Trump, flanked by Vice President Mike Pence (L) and White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus (R), looks up while signing an executive order on the reinstatement of the Mexico City Policy in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington January 23, 2017.   REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque - RTSWZZR
President Donald Trump, flanked by Vice President Mike Pence (L) and White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus (R), looks up while signing an executive order in the Oval Office, Washington, DC, Jan. 23, 2017. — REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

As Iranian emergency workers were racing to remove the rubble of the collapsed Plasco high-rise in Tehran, Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States on Jan. 20.

While Trump was being inaugurated in Washington, people and media in Iran were focused on the debris removal operation following the collapse of the 17-story Plasco building, and as such, paid perhaps less than expected attention to Barack Obama’s departure from the White House.

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