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Al-Monitor
March 20, 2018
With his two closest confidants behind bars, former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is lashing out by writing open letters to both Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Quds Force commander Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani. On March 13, former Vice President Hamid Baghaei began a 15-yearÃâà...
RadioFarda
March 20, 2018
A reformists political activist has found common ground with hardline former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in their criticism of Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. While ultraconservative Ahmadinejad has thus far limited his criticism to implicit comments, reformist Mostafa Tajzadeh hasÃâà...
Al-Arabiya
March 19, 2018
In an uncommon escalation of the brewing power struggle within the different wings in Iran, former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad disclosed the size of Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei's fortune estimated at $800 billion toman, the equivalent of about $190 bln, accusing him of stealing people'Ãâà...
Aljazeera.com
March 5, 2018
Most here voted for President Hassan Rouhani when he ran for re-election in 2017 and the one before that in 2013, when the centrist candidate replaced Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. With Rouhani's promise of reform and economic growth showing little to no progress, however, the truck driver is feelingÃâà...
RadioFarda
February 26, 2018
Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has warned the Supreme Leader that that the ruling system in the Islamic Republic has lost its legitimacy and said its leaders should be replaced through free and fair elections. In a text published February 25 on “Dolat-i Bahar” (The Government of Spring),Ãâà...
Irish Times
February 25, 2018
Iran's hardline factions once dubbed him “the miracle of the third millennium”. But former firebrand president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has turned into “the ally of the Satan,” in the words of one hardliner, as he has become an increasingly disruptive force embarrassing those who secured his path to power.
Al-Monitor
February 22, 2018
Former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose contested re-election plunged Iran into its largest street protests since the 1979 revolution, has written an open letter addressed to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei calling for free elections. Ahmadinejad said the letter, published on his websiteÃâà...
The New Arab
February 22, 2018
Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called for immediate 'free' presidential and parliamentary elections, but many are suspicious about the intentions of the former hard-line president.
Al-Monitor
February 15, 2018
In his new role as a member of those critical of Iran's unelected power centers, especially the judiciary, former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has now joined the ranks of those criticizing officials for a number of unexplained prison deaths that the authorities have labeled a suicide. The latest incident of aÃâà...
