TEHRAN -- It was meant to be a crowning moment in which Iran put its own Islamic stamp on the Arab Spring. More than a thousand young activists were flown here earlier this week (at government expense) for a conference on ''the Islamic Awakening,'' Tehran's effort to rebrand the popular Arab uprisings of the past year. As delegates flooded into a...
Iran struck a combative tone Thursday in its confrontation with the West over the nuclear issue, threatening to terminate oil exports to European nations even before their embargo takes effect this summer. But its president also acknowledged that the regimen of punitive sanctions imposed on Iran, which he had long dismissed as insignificant, were...
Facing a wave of panic selling by Iranians worried that international sanctions and inflation are destroying the value of the country's currency, the rial, Iran's president reversed himself on Wednesday and allowed bank interest rates to rise sharply in an effort to stop a slide that has depressed the rial to a relentless string of record lows. The...
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (محمود احمدینژاد), født den. 28. oktober 1956, er Irans 6. præsident. Han tiltrådte som præsident den 3. august, 2005. Hans efternavn staves også Ahmadinezhad.
Ahmadinejad var borgmester i Teheran (hovedstaden i Iran), fra den 3. maj 2003 til den 28. juni 2005. Før sin politiske karriere, var Ahmadinejad bygningsingeniør og professor ved Iran University of Science and Technology.
Ahmadinejad betragtes generelt som en religiøs konservativ, med islamistiske og, efter nogens mening, populistiske holdninger.
Ahmadinejad blev valgt som Irans præsident den 24. juni 2005, efter anden runde af præsidentvalget, hvor han slog den tidligere præsident Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. Ahmadinejad vandt med 61,69% af stemmerne. Ved valget deltog 59,6% af Irans ca. 28 millioner stemmeberettigede. Ahmadinejad blev indsat som præsident den 3. august 2005. Fold ud