back when he was a freshman , if you gave baback some wrinkles and a salt-and-pepper beard he 'd look exactly like the current iranian president , mahmoud ahmadinejad , which could cause him problems , especially during patriotic times like 9/11 anniversaries , and whenever ahmadinejad made anti-semitic , anti-israel , and anti-american comments , which was all the time.26 at the very least you would have thought that baback definitely could be related to ahmadinejad , that 's how much he used to look like the iranian president .