Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

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  Who Is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Trump's 1st Choice For Iran's New Leader

  Many who remembered Ahmadinejad's term in office from 2005 to 2013 recall him as a Holocaust denier, an atom-bomb fanatic, and someone who shoved Islamic revolutionary ideology down the throats of a country already weary of it.

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  After 12 Years, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Set To Contest Iran Presidential Polls Again

  Iran's hardline former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has registered to run for president in the country's June 28 election, organized after the death of Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash last month, Iran's state television reported on Sunday.

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  Deal or No Deal, Iranian President Faces Headaches at Home

  Iran's president has been pursuing a nuclear agreement for two years but even if a deal is reached Hassan Rouhani and his government will soon face mounting political pressure at home.

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  New video game allows players to confront Iran's 'symbols of sedition'

  The player must shoot the targets - the heads of two opposition leaders - Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi.

• Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gets post-presidency seat in top Iran council

  Iran's supreme leader today appointed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the Expediency Council, the country's top political arbitration body headed by an avid critic of the outgoing president.

• Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warns Israel will be 'uprooted'

  Iran's outgoing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned arch-foe Israel today in one of his last public speeches that a regional storm was brewing that would "uproot" the Jewish state.

• Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad unhurt in helicopter 'accident'

  Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's helicopter had to make an emergency landing in the northeast on Sunday after an unspecified "accident," the presidency reported, adding that he was unhurt.

• Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may get 74 lashes for allegedly breaking election law

  Iran's constitutional watchdog said Sunday it will seek possible charges against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for allegedly violating rules by accompanying his chief adviser to the election registry office the previous day.

• Mahmoud Ahmadinejad under fire for hugging Hugo Chavez's mother

  Senior Iranian clerics have scolded President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for consoling Hugo Chavez's mother with a hug - a physical contact considered a sin under Iran's strict Islamic codes.

• I'll talk with US if pressure stops: Iran President Ahmadinejad

  Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says he is ready to have direct talks with the United States if the West stops pressuring his country.

• Ally of Iran's Ahmadinejad freed from prison: official agency

  A once-feared Iranian prosecutor at the centre of a confrontation between two of the Islamic Republic's most powerful figures was freed on Wednesday, state news agency IRNA said, two days after he was arrested without explanation.

• Shoes thrown at Iranian president in Egypt

  President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to Cairo on Tuesday, the first by an Iranian leader in more than three decades, highlights efforts by Egypt's Islamist leader to thaw long frigid ties between the two regional heavyweights.

• Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on historic visit to Cairo

  President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Cairo on Tuesday for the first visit by an Iranian leader in more than three decades, marking a historic departure from years of frigid ties between the two regional heavyweights.

• Tweeting John McCain compares Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to monkey

  Outspoken US Senator John McCain raised eyebrows online on Monday when he compared Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to a monkey that the Islamic republic recently launched into space.

• Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wants to be Iran's first astronaut

  President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Monday he was ready to be the first human sent into orbit by Iran's fledgling space program, Iranian media reported.