Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

6th President of the Islamic Republic of Iran from 2005 to 2013

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Born 1956 · age 70
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    Born 1956
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Updated 2026-09-09

Iran's sixth president, 2005 to 2013, who declared the Holocaust a myth and called repeatedly for Israel's destruction — claims he later named among his major achievements. His disputed 2012 re-election triggered mass protests and international condemnation.

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Born Sabbaghian in 1956, an engineer and teacher from a poor family shaped by revolutionary thinkers, he joined the Office for Strengthening Unity after the 1979 revolution. Appointed provincial governor in 1993, he was removed with all other governors in 1997 and returned to teaching until Tehran's council elected him mayor in 2003, where he reversed his predecessor's moderate reforms. His 2005 presidential campaign took 62% in the runoff; he became president that August. He introduced gasoline rationing in 2007, cut interest rates, and grew increasingly isolated — fighting reformers, the Rev…

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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Our dear Imam [Ayatollah Khomeini] said that the occupying regime must be wiped off the map and this was a very wise statement. We cannot compromise over the issue of Palestine.
Preceding quotes as cited in "Text of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Speech", The New York Times (30 October 2005)
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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We need to examine the true origins of the issue of Palestine: is it a fight between a group of Muslims and non-Jews? Is it a fight between Judaism and other religions?
From a speech at the Islamic Student Associations conference in Tehran (26 October 2005).
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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The establishment of the occupying regime of Qods [Jerusalem] was a major move by the world oppressor [the United States] against the Islamic world.
From a speech at the Islamic Student Associations conference in Tehran (26 October 2005).
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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The Islamic world lost its last defenses in the past 100 years and the world oppressor established the occupying regime.
From a speech at the Islamic Student Associations conference in Tehran (26 October 2005).
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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In the Name of the God of Mercy, Compassion, Peace, Freedom and Justice. Mr.
Address to the United Nations General Assembly (17 September 2005)
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