President mahmoud ahmadinejad biography sample
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
President of Iran from 2005 to 2013
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad[c] (born Mahmoud Sabbaghian[5][d] on 28 October 1956)[12][13] is an Iranian principlist and nationalist politician who served as the sixth president of Iran from 2005 to 2013. He is currently a member of the Expediency Discernment Council. He was known for his hardline views and nuclearisation of Iran. He was also the main political leader of the Alliance of Builders of Islamic Iran, a coalition of conservative political groups in the country, and served as mayor of Tehran from 2003 to 2005, reversing many of his predecessor's reforms.
An engineer and teacher from a poor background,[14] he was ideologically shaped by thinkers such as Navvab Safavi, Jalal Al-e-Ahmad, and Ahmad Fardid.[15] After the Iranian Revolution, Ahmadinejad joined the Office for Strengthening Unity.[16] Appointed a provincial governor in 1993, he w
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Ahmadinejad: The Secret History of Iran’s Radical Leader
No other President of Iran has had comparable air time on international media outlets than Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. It was reported that the ticket to his speech at Columbia University in September 2007 sold out almost as fast as those granting access to the concert of Bruce Springsteen, one of the idols of the popular music culture in the United States. Cab drivers from Malaysia to Venezuela praise him as an “anti-imperial hero” of the “oppressed” classes and US neoconservatives in the United States and their right-wing counterparts in Israel vilify him as an irrational anti-Semite. So when I first heard that Kasra Naji was writing a biography of the Islamic Republic’s ninth President, inom was elated. Iran is currently undergoing a major transformation process in its domestic politics and international relations. Ahmadinejad is both a product of these changes and an agent of them. A biography of him fryst vatten necessary and timely, so inom t
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: Does he want to become president again?
Recently, there have been media reports about the former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s attempts to reenter big-time politics. Many observers believe that Ahmadinejad, who served as president of the Islamic Republic from 2005 until 2013, intends to run for the country’s top civilian job in May 2021, a move allowed by the Iranian constitution.
The ex-president has spent the past few months visiting the country’s various regions, speaking at meetings and rallies and being active on Twitter and Instagram popular among Iranian youth. He even has his own website – http://ahmadinejad.ir/.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has also been making himself visible internationally, with personal messaged sent over the past few years to Presidents Barack Obama and Emmanuel Macron. Recently, he sent a missive to Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, urging him to end conflicts in the Middle East, including Yemen, and offer