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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

May 2024

  • Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and others at a memorial ceremony

    Iran presidential election: up to 20 possible contenders gear up for battle

    As official mourning for Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi ends, here are some of the names of his potential successors

May 2021

  • composite picture of seven men in suits and open-necked shirts

    Iran’s leadership accused of fixing presidential election

    Guardian Council’s bar on reformist candidates has left narrow field of hardliners for June poll

October 2020

  • Narges Mohammadi’s husband said she had contracted Covid-19 in prison.

    Iran: prominent human rights activist released over health concerns

    Narges Mohammadi suffers from neurological condition and was initially sentenced to 10 years in prison

January 2018

  • People protest against the high cost of living in Tehran, Iran.

    Iran protests: deaths in custody spark human rights concerns

    At least three demonstrators believed to have been killed in custody amid violent crackdown on anti-government protests

December 2017

  • People gather to protest over the high cost of living in Tehran, Iran.

    Iranian protests are complex jigsaw puzzle, say observers

    Demonstrations unprecedented since 1979 revolution, but reasons behind them are both economic and political

August 2017

  • Ebrahim Yazdi holding a press conference in Tehran in 2005.

    Ebrahim Yazdi obituary

    Leader of the opposition party the Freedom Movement of Iran who was sentenced to eight years in jail

April 2017

  • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad<br>Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad waves in the courtyard of his office, at the conclusion of an interview with The Associated Press in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, April 15, 2017. Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says he does not view recent U.S. missile strikes on ally Syria as a message for Iran, which he called a “powerful country” that the U.S. cannot harm. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

    Iran disqualifies Ahmadinejad from bid to regain presidency

    Six politicians given go-ahead to run in presidential election, which is likely to boil down to a three-man race on 19 May
  • Former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad shows his inked finger after registering his candidacy at the interior ministry in Tehran for the forthcoming election.

    Iran's Ahmadinejad to run for president despite Khamenei warning

    Former hardline leader registers candidacy for election next month, defying ‘advice’ of supreme leader
  • Ebrahim Raisi

    Conservative cleric Ebrahim Raisi enters Iran's presidential race

    Close ally of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei makes surprise declaration that he will challenge the moderate incumbent, Hassan Rouhani

March 2017

  • Saeed Kamali Dehghan

    Ahmadinejad and Trump on Twitter are a match made in heaven

    Saeed Kamali Dehghan
  • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

    Iran's Ahmadinejad joins Twitter despite ban

November 2016

  • Saeed Mortazavi

    Former Iranian prosecutor sentenced to 135 lashes for corruption

    Saeed Mortazavi, labelled a serial human rights abuser, was found guilty of seizing public funds and showing negligence

September 2016

  • An Iranian man sits in front of holy scroll.

    Tehran Bureau
    Removal of the heart: how Islam became a matter of state in Iran

  • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

    Iran blog
    Ahmadinejad blocked from running in Iran presidential elections

July 2016

  • Iranian women leave after the Eid al-Fitr prayers in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, July 6, 2016. Eid al-Fitr marks the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

    Tehran Bureau
    Polling gives a dark forecast for Iranian president Hassan Rouhani

    Rouhani is losing ground as his fundamentalists opponents push slogans oddly similar to those of Donald Trump and the Brexiteers

May 2016

  • The swirling landscape of Iran’s salt desert, Dasht-e Kavir.

    Tehran Bureau
    A grand but faulty vision for Iran's water problems

    Ali Mirchi and Kaveh Madani for Tehran Bureau
    Massive water transfer schemes are no solution to Iran’s growing problems with drought

April 2016

  • An Iranian woman adjusts her head scarf while crossing a street in downtown Tehran, Iran.

    Tehran Bureau
    Why so many Iranians have come to hate the hijab

    Denise Hassanzade Ajiri for Tehran Bureau
    Over the years the state crackdown on women’s dress has become more of a show to placate the country’s hardline base. Our correspondent shares stories from her personal repertoire illustrating the point
  • Talks of ‘economic jihad’ go back to the 1979 Revolution and the heroism of the 1980-88 war with Iraq. Ali Khamenei, then president, speaking on the anniversary of the Iranian Revolution, in 1986.

    Tehran Bureau
    Deciphering the Iranian leader's call for a 'resistance economy'

    As with the nuclear agreement, supreme leader Ali Khamenei and President Rouhani may have more in common than in dispute over the economy and foreign investment
  • David Cameron and Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson

    Panama Papers: a special investigation
    The fallout from Panama Papers revelations so far, country by country

    Russia claimed ‘Putinphobia’ was afoot, but Iceland’s PM was less cool under pressure – and David Cameron is still feeling the heat

February 2016

  • Lake Marivan, Iranian Kurdistan

    Tehran Bureau
    Poetry and silence: Iran's Kurds tread the line between art and activism

    A majority in Kurdistan province voted for President Rouhani nearly three years ago. On the eve of yet another election, frustration simmers below the surface
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