Ahmadinejad


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Ah·ma·di·ne·jad

 (ä′mə-dē′nĕ-jäd′), Mahmoud Born 1956.
Iranian engineer and politician noted for his confrontational stance toward the West. First elected president in 2005, he was reelected in 2009 in a widely disputed vote.
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Ahmadinejad

(æhmæhdɪnəˈdʒæd)
n
(Biography) Mahmoud (mæhˈmuːd). born 1956, Iranian politician; president of Iran (2005–13)
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Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, 80, denied he is an anti-Semite in an interview with The Nation on Monday.
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Summary: Hard-line former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad surprised Iran's religious establishment by registering for the May 19 presidential election, defying a warning by the Islamic Republic's supreme leader not to enter the race.
Former Iranian hardline president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who held office from 2005 to 2013, has announced that he will run in the spring 2017 presidential election, is expected to launch his comeback campaign.
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NEW YORK (CyHAN)- Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu met with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in New York on Wednesday.
In one corner is President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a 54-year-old radical who seems determined to amass more power for the presidency, largely at the expense of Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, placing his cohorts in key positions in government and the bureaucracy before his second four-year term runs out in March 2013.