محمود أحمدي‌نژاد

محمود أحمدي نجاد Mahmūd Ahmadinejād محمود احمدی‌نژاد
سادس رئيس لإيران
في المنصب 3 أغسطس 2005 – 3 أغسطس 2013
نائب الرئيس	پرڤيز داوودي اسفنديار رحيم مشايي محمد رضا رحيمي
زعيم	علي خامنئي
سبقه	محمد خاتمي
خلفه	حسن روحاني
خامس عمدة طهران
في المنصب 20 يونيو 2003 – 3 أغسطس 2005
سبقه	محمد حسن مالك‌مدني
خلفه	محمد باقر قاليباف
تفاصيل شخصية
وُلِد	28 أكتوبر 1956 أردان، طهران، إيران
الحزب	ائتلاف بناة إيران الإسلامية
انتماءات سياسية أخرى	جمعية المهندسين الإسلامية
الزوج	أعظم السادات فراحي ​ (m. 1980)​
الأنجال	3
الإقامة	ميدان 72، نرمك، طهران
الجامعة الأم	جامعة إيران للعلوم والتكنولوجيا
المهنة	مهندس مدني
الدين	مسلم
التوقيع
الموقع الإلكتروني	http://www.president.ir
الخدمة العسكرية
الولاء	إيران
الخدمة/الفرع	جيش حراس الثورة الإسلامية
سنوات الخدمة	1986–1988
الرتبة	لا يوجد
الوحدة	مقر حمزة
قاد	Combat engineering Unit, 6th Special Division
المعارك/الحروب	الحرب الإيرانية العراقية العملية فتح 1
الخلفية الأكاديمية
الأطروحات	دراسة خطة النقل الشاملة في كردستان (1988) Assessment of subway for passengers transportation (A case study of Tehran) (1997)
المشرف على الدكتوراه	حميد رحباني
مشرفون أكاديميون آخرون	خلي منصور خاكي غلام‌رضا حمزة جليل شاهي
العمل الأكاديمي
المجال	الهندسة المدنية
المجال الفرعي	هندسة الطرق
المؤسسة	جامعة إيران للعلوم والتكنولوجيا

محمود أحمدي نجاد (فارسية: محمود احمدی‌نژاد [mæhmuːd(-e) æhmædiːneʒɒːd] ( استمع), و. محمود صباغيان (فارسية: صباغیان) في 28 أكتوبر 1956)، هو سياسي إيران وسادس رؤساء إيران من 2005 حتى 2013. وكان أيضاً الزعيم السياسي الرئيسي لائتلاف بناة إيران الإسلامية، وهو تحالف من الجماعات السياسية المحافظة في البلاد، وشغل منصب عمدة طهران من عام 2003 حتى 2005، مما أدى إلى عكس العديد من إصلاحات سلفه.

كمهندس ومعلم من عائلة فقيرة، تشكل أحمدي‌نژاد إيديولوجياً من قبل مفكرين مثل نواب صفوي، جلال الأحمد، وأحمد فردي. بعد قيام الثورة الإيرانية، انضم أحمدي‌نژاد إلى مكتب تعزيز الوحدة. عُين محافظاً عام 1993، وأُستبدل مع جميع المحافظين الآخرين عام 1997 بعد انتخاب الرئيس محمد خاتمي وعاد إلى التدريس. انتخبه مجلس طهران عمدة للمدينة عام 2003. اتخذ أحمدي‌نژاد موقفاً دينياً متشدداً، فعكس الإصلاحات التي أجراها العمد المعتدلون السابقون. حازت حملته الرئاسية 2005، بدعم من ائتلاف بناة إيران الإسلامية، على 62% من أصوات جولة الإعادة، وأصبح رئيساً في 3 أغسطس 2005.

خلال رئاسته، كان أحمدي‌نژاد شخصية مثيرة للجدل في إيران وفي جميع أنحاء العالم. وتعرض لانتقادات محلية بسبب سياساته الاقتصادية، واتُهم بتجاهل حقوق الإنسان من قبل المنظمات في أمريكا الشمالية وأوروپا. خارج إيران، تعرض لانتقادات بسبب عدائه تجاه إسرائيل، السعودية، المملكة المتحدة، الولايات المتحدة والدول الغربية والعربية الأخرى. عام 2007، طرح أحمدي‌نژاد خطة تقنين الگازولين لتقليل استهلاك الوقود في البلاد وخفض أسعار الفائدة التي يمكن أن تفرضها التسهيلات المصرفية الخاصة والعامة.

كان انتخاب أحمدي‌نژاد لفترة رئاسية ثانية عام 2009 محل نزاع واسع النطاق، وأدى إلى انتشار احتجاجات محلية وانتقادات من الدول الغربية. وقد دعا مراراً وتكراراً إلى تدمير إسرائيل. كما أعلن أنه الهولوكوست مجرد أسطورة، وادعى لاحقاً أن الترويج لإنكار الهولوكوست كان أحد الإنجازات الرئيسية لرئاسته.

خلال فترة رئاسته الثانية، شهد أحمدي‌نژاد صراعاً على السلطة مع الإصلاحيين وغيرهم من التقليديين في البرلمان والحرس الثوري، وكذلك مع القائد الأعلى علي خامنئي، بسبب إقالته لوزير المخابرات غلام‌حسين محسني إژه‌إي ودعمه لمستشاره المقرب المثير للجدل إسفندیار رحیم‌مشائي. في 14 مارس 2012، أصبح أحمدي‌نژاد أول رئيس لجمهورية إيران الإسلامية يستدعيه مجلس الشورى الإسلامي (البرلمان) للإجابة على الأسئلة المتعلقة برئاسته. ولأن الدستور الإيراني يُقتصر الفترات الرئاسية المتتالية باثنتين، فقد دعم أحمدي‌نژاد حملة مشائي الرئاسية. عام 2013، أُنتخب حسن روحاني رئيساً لإيران خلفاً لأحمدي‌نژاد.

في 12 أبريل 2017، أعلن أحمدي‌نژاد عزمه ينوي الترشح لفترة رئاسية ثالثة في الانتخابات الرئاسية 2017، رغم اعتراضات القائد الأعلى خامنئي. رفض مجلس صيانة الدستور ترشحه. أثناء خلال الاحتجاجات الإيرانية 2017-2018، انتقد أحمدي‌نژاد الحكومة الإيرانية الحالية. وقام بمحاولات إضافية للتسجيل للترشح في الانتخابات الرئاسية 2021 و2024، لكن ترشحه رُفض.

في يوليو 2026، تواردت أنباء أن وكالة المخابرات المركزية والموساد خططا في البداية لإعادة تنصيب أحمدي‌نژاد كرئيس لإيران كجزء من تغيير النظام أثناء عمليتي الغضب الملحمي والأسد الزئير، والتي فشلت منذ ذلك الحين.

 النشأة والتعليم

محمود أحمدي نجاد

ولد محمود أحمدی نجاد في عام 1956 في قرية ارادان من توابع مدينة كرمسار جنوبی [طهران]. وقد سكن في مدینة طهران مع أسرته منذ السنة الأولي من عمره وأمضي مراحل دراسته الإبتدائية والمتوسطة والثانوية في هذه المدينة. وأحرز المرتبة 132 في الاختبار العام للقبول في الجامعة في عام 1975م حيث بدأ دراسته العليا في قسم هندسة تخطیط المدن في جامعة العلم والصناعة. وفي عام 1986 تم قبوله في مرحلة الماجستير في تلك الجامعة ثم إنضم في عام 1989 إلي الهيئة التدریسیة لكلية هندسة تخطیط المدن في الجامعة نفسها. وفي عام 1997. نجح في الحصول علي شهادة دكتوراه هندسة التخطيط للشحن والنقل من الجامعة ذاتها. والدكتور أحمدی نجاد لديه إلمام باللغة الانجليزية وخلال سنوات تدريسه في هذه الجامعة وتأليفه للمقالات وكتابته العديد من الأبحاث العلمية قام بالإشراف علي العشرات من أطروحات الماجستير والدكتوراه الأخصائیة في مختلف مجالات هندسة تخطیط المدن والطرق والشحن والنقل. وقبل انتصار الثورة الإسلامية شارك الدكتور أحمدی نجاد باعتباره طالباً جامعياً حينذاك في الإجتماعات الدينية والسياسية وتعرّف علی الأجواء السياسية في المجتمع. وبعد انتصار الثورة الاسلامية وبالنظر إلي حضوره في الجامعة، كان أحمدی نجاد من مؤسسي الرابطة الاسلامية لطلّاب جامعة العلم والصناعة في إيران.

 مسيرته الإدارية والأكاديمية

Some details of Ahmadinejad's life during the 1980s are not publicly known, but it is known that he held a number of administrative posts in the province of West Azerbaijan, Iran.

Many reports say that after Saddam Hussein ordered the Iraqi invasion of Iran, Ahmadinejad joined the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and served in their intelligence and security apparatus, but his advisor Mojtaba Samareh Hashemi has said: "He has never been a member or an official member of the Revolutionary Guards", having been a Basiji-like volunteer instead.

Ahmadinejad was accepted to a Master of Science program at his alma mater in 1986. He joined the faculty there as a lecturer in 1989, and in 1997 received his doctorate in civil engineering and traffic transportation planning.

 مسيرته السياسية المبكرة

المقالة الرئيسية: محمود أحمدي نجاد وأزمة الرهائن 1979

After the Islamic Revolution, Ahmadinejad became a member of the Office for Strengthening Unity, an organization developed to prevent students from sympathizing or allying with the emerging militant Mojahedin-e Khalq organisation.

الروايات التي أشارت إلى أن أحمدي نجاد كان أحد المشاركين في حصار السفارة الامريكية قي طهران 1980 أصبحت حاليا غير ذات مصداقية. عمله السياسي المبكر بعد الثورة الإسلامية، أحمدي نجاد أصبح عضوا في مكتب تعزيز الوحدة، وهي منظمة وضعت لمنع الطلاب من التعاطف أو التحالف مع مجاهدي خلق. أول مرة تولى فيها منصبا سياسيا كان رئيسا غير منتخب على كل من مقاطعتي ماكو وكوى في محافظة أذربيجان الغربية خلال 1980. ثم أصبح مستشارا للحاكم العام لمقاطعة كردستان لمدة عامين. وخلال دراسات للدكتوراه في طهران، عين حاكما عاما لمقاطعة أردبيل في الفترة من 1993و حتى استبعده محمد خاتمي في عام 1997.حيث عاد أحمدي نجاد بعد ذلك إلى التدريس.

Ahmadinejad first assumed political office as unelected governor to both Maku and Khoy in West Azarbaijan Province during the 1980s. He eventually became an advisor to the governor general of Kurdistan Province for two years. During his doctoral studies at Tehran, he was appointed governor general of newly formed Ardabil Province from 1993 until Mohammad Khatami removed him in 1997, whereupon he returned to teaching.

 عمدة طهران (2003–2005)

Ahmadinejad expressing his gratitude to a Rabbi from Hamedan

The 2003 mayoral race in Tehran elected conservative candidates from the Alliance of Builders of Islamic Iran to the City Council of Tehran. The Council appointed Ahmadinejad as Mayor.

As mayor, he reversed changes made by previous moderate and reformist mayors. He put religious emphasis on the activities of cultural centres they had founded, publicised the separation of elevators for men and women in the municipality offices, and suggested that people killed in the Iran–Iraq War be buried in major city squares of Tehran. He also worked to improve the traffic system and put an emphasis on charity, such as distributing free soup to the poor.

After his election to the presidency, Ahmadinejad's resignation as the Mayor of Tehran was accepted on 28 June 2005. After two years as mayor, Ahmadinejad was one of 65 finalists for World Mayor in 2005, selected from 550 nominees, only nine of them from Asia. He was among three strong candidates for the top-ten list, but his resignation made him ineligible.

 الرئاسة (2005–2013)

للمزيد من المعلومات: رئاسة محمود أحمدي‌نژاد

 الانتخابات

المقالة الرئيسية: انتخابات الرئاسة الإيرانية 2005

تنافس في 17 يونيو 2005 م في الانتخابات الرئاسية، وأحدث المفاجأة بفوزه في الدور الاول بنسبة 19.5% من الأصوات، واحتل المركز الثاني وراء الرئيس السابق هاشمي رفسنجاني. يوم 24 يونيو تم إجراء الدور الثاني من الانتخابات وأمام دهشة الجميع أعلن عن فوز محمود أحمدي نجاد بمقعد رئاسة الجمهورية في إيران.

 حملة انتخابات 2005

Ahmadinejad was not particularly well known when he entered the presidential election campaign as he had never run for office before, (he had been mayor of Tehran for only two years and had been appointed, not elected),^:315 although he had already made his mark in Tehran for rolling back earlier reforms. He was a member of the Central Council of the Islamic Society of Engineers, but his key political support was inside the Alliance of Builders of Islamic Iran (Abadgaran or Developers). He was also helped by support from supreme leader Ali Khamenei, of whom some described Ahmadinejad as a protégé.

Ahmadinejad was largely non-committal about his plans for his presidency, perhaps to attract both religious conservatives and the lower economic classes. His campaign slogan was: "It's possible and we can do it".

In the campaign, he took a populist approach. He emphasized his own modest life, and compared himself with Mohammad Ali Rajai, Iran's second president. Ahmadinejad said he planned to create an "exemplary government for the people of the world" in Iran. He was a "principlist", acting politically based on Islamic and revolutionary principles. One of his goals was "putting the petroleum income on people's tables", meaning Iran's oil profits would be distributed among the poor.

Ahmadinejad was the only presidential candidate who spoke out against future relations with the United States. He told Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting the United Nations was "one-sided, stacked against the world of Islam". He opposed the veto power of the UN Security Council's five permanent members: "It is not just for a few states to sit and veto global approvals. Should such a privilege continue to exist, the Muslim world with a population of nearly 1.5 billion should be extended the same privilege." He defended Iran's nuclear program and accused "a few arrogant powers" of trying to limit Iran's industrial and technological development in this and other fields.

In his second-round campaign, he said, "We didn't participate in the revolution for turn-by-turn government. ... This revolution tries to reach a world-wide government." He spoke of an extended program using trade to improve foreign relations, and called for greater ties with Iran's neighbours and ending visa requirements between states in the region, saying that "people should visit anywhere they wish freely. People should have freedom in their pilgrimages and tours."

Ahmadinejad described Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi Mesbah Yazdi, a senior cleric from Qom, as his ideological and spiritual mentor. Mesbah founded the Haghani School of thought in Iran. He and his team strongly supported Ahmadinejad's 2005 presidential campaign.

 الانتخابات الرئاسية 2005

المقالة الرئيسية: الانتخابات الرئاسية الإيرانية 2005

Ahmadinejad won 62% of the vote in the run-off poll against Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei authorized his presidency on 3 August 2005. Ahmadinejad kissed Khamenei's hand during the ceremony to show his loyalty.

Shortly after Ahmadinejad was elected president, some Western media outlets published claims that he was among the students who stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran, sparking the Iran hostage crisis. This claim has been denied by the Iranian government, the Iranian opposition, as well as a United States investigation by the CIA.

 التعيينات الوزارية 2005

الوزارة	الوزير
Agriculture	Mohammad Reza Eskandari
Commerce	Masoud Mir Kazemi
Communication and Information Technology	Mohammad Soleimani
Cooperatives	Mohammad Abbasi
Culture and Islamic Guidance	Hossein Saffar Harandi
Defense and Armed Forces Logistics	Mostafa Mohammad Najjar
Economy and Financial Affairs	Hossein Samsami
Education	Alireza Ali Ahmadi
Energy	Parviz Fattah
Foreign Affairs	Manoucher Mottaki
Health and Medical Education	Kamran Bagheri Lankarani
Housing and Urban Development	Mohammad Saeedikia
Industries and Mines	Aliakbar Mehrabian
Intelligence	Gholam Hossein Mohseni-Ejehei
Interior	Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi
Justice	Gholam Hossein Elham
Labour and Social Affairs	Mohammad Jahromi
Petroleum	Gholam Hossein Nozari
Roads and Transportation	Hamid Behbahani
Science, Research, and Technology	Mohammad Mehdi Zahedi
Welfare and Social Security	Abdolreza Mesri

 انتخابات 2009

Ahmadinejad in Yekaterinburg, روسيا, 16 June 2009

المقالة الرئيسية: الانتخابات الرئاسية الإيرانية 2009

الانتخابات الرئاسية الإيرانية 2009، هي انتخابات رئاسية عقدت في إيران في 12 يونيو، 2009. وهي الانتخابات الرئاسية العاشرة في البلاد. ويشغل محمود أحمدي نجاد، الذي يعاد ترشيحه مرة أخرى لمنصب الرئاسة. وحاولت حركة الإصلاح الإيرانية توحيد صفوفها خلف مرشح واحد. الرئيس السابق محمد خاتمي كان من أبرز المرشحين للمنافسة لحين خروجه وتأييد رئيس الوزراء مير حسين موسوي. المتحدث السابق باسم المجلس مهدي كروبي، وهو من الإصلاحيين، أيضا يخوض الإنتخابات الرئاسية.

 احتجاجات الانتخابات الرئاسية الإيرانية 2009

المقالة الرئيسية: احتجاجات الانتخابات الرئاسية الإيرانية 2009

احتجاجات الانتخابات الإيرانية 2009، هي احتجاجات أعقبت الانتخابات الرئاسية الإيرانية 2009 اعتراضا على تزوير الإنتخابات وتضامنا مع مرشح الرئاسة مير حسين موسوي ، واندلعت في 21 يونيو في طهران والمدن الإيرانية الرئيسية ومدن أخرى حول العالم.

وقد أطلق على تلك الاحتجاجات عدة ألقاب منها الثورة الخضراء بسبب اختيار موسوي للون الأخضر في حملته الانتخابية ، والصحوة الفارسية. وكرد على تلك الاحتجاجات، احتشدت مجموعات أخرى مؤيدة لانتصارات محمود أحمدي نجاد.

ووصف بعض المحللون نتائج الانتخابات تلك المثيرة للجدل بالانقلاب. أو كما بالفارسية Anno Persarum 1388 خرداد انقلاب 22 يونيو). وقد إدعى الثلاث مرشحين بأن هناك تلاعب في الأصوات الانتخابية، وقدم كل من محسن رضائي ومير موسوي شكاوى رسمية. وأعلن موسوي أنه "لن يستسلم لهذا التلاعب" وقدم شكوى رسمية ضد النتائج لمجلس صيانة الدستور في 14 يونيو.

 التعيينات الوزارية 2009

الوزارة	الوزير
Agriculture	Sadeq Khalilian
Commerce	Mehdi Ghazanfari
Communication and Information Technology	Reza Taghipour
Cooperatives	Mohammad Abbasi
Culture and Islamic Guidance	Mohammad Hosseini
Defense and Armed Forces Logistics	Ahmad Vahidi
Economy and Financial Affairs	Shamseddin Hosseini
Education	Hamid-Reza Haji Babaee
Energy	Majid Namjoo
Foreign Affairs	Manouchehr Mottaki
Health and Medical Education	Marzieh Vahid Dastjerdi
Housing and Urban Development	Reza Sheykholeslam
Industries and Mines	Aliakbar Mehrabian
Intelligence	Heydar Moslehi
Interior	Mostafa Mohammad Najjar
Justice	Morteza Bakhtiari
Labour and Social Affairs	Ali Nikzad
Petroleum	Masoud Mir Kazemi
Roads and Transportation	Hamid Behbahani
Science, Research, and Technology	Kamran Daneshjoo
Welfare and Social Security	Sadeq Mahsouli

Ahmadinejad in 2005

 الانتخابات البرلمانية 2012

Ahmadinejad suffered a defeat in March/May 2012 parliamentary elections with Ayatollah Khamenei's "Principlist" allies winning about three quarters of the parliaments 290 seats, and Ahmadinejad supporters far fewer.

 سياساته الداخلية

 السياسة الاقتصادية

انظر أيضاً: اقتصاد إيران

In Ahmadinejad's first four years as president, Iran's real GDP reflected growth of the economy. Inflation and unemployment also decreased under Ahmadinejad due to better economic management and ending the unsustainable spending and borrowing patterns of previous administrations. Ahmadinejad increased spending by 25% and supported subsidies for food and petrol. He also initially refused a gradual increase of petrol prices, saying that after making necessary preparations, such as a development of public transportation system, the government would free up petrol prices after five years. Interest rates were cut by presidential decree to below the inflation rate. One unintended effect of this stimulation of the economy has been the bidding up of some urban real estate prices by two or three times their pre-Ahmadinejad value by Iranians seeking to invest surplus cash and finding few other safe opportunities. The resulting increase in the cost of housing hurt poorer, non-property owning Iranians, the putative beneficiaries of Ahmadinejad's populist policies. The Management and Planning Organisation, a state body charged with mapping out long-term economic and budget strategy, was broken up and its experienced managers were fired.

Ahmadinejad at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in 2012

In June 2006, 50 Iranian economists wrote a letter to Ahmadinejad that criticized his price interventions to stabilize prices of goods, cement, government services, and his decree issued by the High Labor Council and the Ministry of Labor that proposed an increase of workers' salaries by 40%. Ahmadinejad publicly responded harshly to the letter and denounced the accusations. Ahmadinejad called for "middle-of-the-road" compromises with respect to Western-oriented capitalism and socialism. Current political conflicts with the United States caused the central bank to fear increased capital flight due to global isolation. These factors prevented an improvement of infrastructure and capital influx, despite high economic potential. Among those that did not vote for him in the first election, only 3.5% said they would consider voting for him in the next election. Mohammad Khoshchehreh, a member of the Iranian parliament who campaigned for Ahmadinejad, said that his government "has been strong on populist slogans, but weak on achievement".

President Ahmadinejad changed almost all of his economic ministers, including oil, industry, and economy, from the time he came to power in 2005. In an interview with Fars News Agency in April 2008, Davoud Danesh Jaafari who acted as minister of economy in Ahmadinejad's cabinet, harshly criticized his economic policy: "During my time, there was no positive attitude towards previous experiences or experienced people and there was no plan for the future. Peripheral issues which were not of dire importance to the nation were given priority. Most of the scientific economic concepts like the effect of liquidity on inflation were put in question." In response to these criticisms, Ahmadinejad accused his minister of not being "a man of justice" and declared that the solution to Iran's economic problem is "the culture of martyrdom". In May 2008, the petroleum minister of Iran admitted that the government illegally invested 2 billion dollars to import petrol in 2007. At Iranian parliament, he also mentioned that he simply followed the president's order.

While his government had 275 thousand billion toman oil income, the highest in Iranian history, Ahmadinejad's government had the highest budget deficit since the Iranian revolution.

During his presidency, Ahmadinejad launched a gasoline rationing plan to reduce the country's fuel consumption. He also instituted cuts in the interest rates that private and public banking facilities could charge. He issued a directive that the Management and Planning Organization be affiliated to the government. In May 2011, Ahmadinejad announced that he would temporarily run the Oil Ministry.

 سياسة تنظيم الأسرة والسكان

انظر أيضاً: تنظيم الأسرة في إيران

In October 2006, Ahmadinejad began calling for the scrapping of Iran's existing birth-control policies which discouraged Iranian couples from having more than two children. He told MPs that Iran could cope with 50 million more people than the current 70 million. In November 2010, he urged Iranians to marry and reproduce earlier: "We should take the age of marriage for boys to 20 and for girls to about 16 and 17." His remarks drew criticism and called ill-judged at a time when Iran was struggling with surging inflation and rising unemployment, estimated at 11%. Ahmadinejad's call was reminiscent of a call for Iranians to have more children made by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1979. The policy had increased Iran's population by 16 million in seven years^:321 but had eventually been reversed in response to the resultant economic strain.

In 2008, the government sent the "Family Protection Bill" to the Iranian parliament. Women's rights activists criticized the bill for removing protections from women, such as the requirement that a husband obtain his wife's consent before marrying a second wife. Women's rights in Iran are more religiously based than those in secular countries.

 الإسكان

انظر أيضاً: Construction industry of Iran § Mehr Housing Scheme

The first legislation to emerge from his newly formed government was a 12 trillion rial (US$1.3 billion) fund called "Reza's Compassion Fund", named after Shi'a Imam Ali al-Rida. Ahmadinejad's government said this fund would tap Iran's oil revenues to help young people get jobs, afford marriage, and buy their own homes. The fund also sought charitable donations, with a board of trustees in each of Iran's 30 provinces. The legislation was a response to the cost of urban housing, which is pushing up the national average marital age (currently around 25 years for women and 28 years for men). In 2006 the Iranian parliament rejected the fund; however, Ahmadinejad ordered the administrative council to execute the plan.

 حقوق الإنسان

Ahmadinejad speaking at Columbia University, September 2007

انظر أيضاً: Human rights in Iran

According to a report by Human Rights Watch, "Since President Ahmadinejad came to power, treatment of detainees has worsened in Evin Prison as well as in detention centers operated clandestinely by the Judiciary, the Ministry of Information, and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps."^:464 Human Rights Watch also has stated, "Respect for basic human rights in Iran, especially freedom of expression and assembly, deteriorated in 2006. The government routinely tortures and mistreats detained dissidents, including through prolonged solitary confinement."^:463 Human Rights Watch described the source of human rights violations in contemporary Iran as coming from the Judiciary, accountable to Ali Khamenei, and from members directly appointed by Ahmadinejad. Responses to dissent have varied. Human Rights Watch writes that "the Ahmadinejad government, in a pronounced shift from the policy under former president Mohammed Khatami, has shown no tolerance for peaceful protests and gatherings". In December 2006, Ahmadinejad advised officials not to disturb students who engaged in a protest during a speech of his at the Amirkabir University of Technology in Tehran, although speakers at other protests have included among their complaints that there had been a crackdown on dissent at universities since Ahmadinejad was elected. In April 2007, the Tehran police, under Khamenei's supervision, began a crackdown on women with "improper hijab". This led to criticism from associates of Ahmadinejad. In 2012, Ahmadinejad claimed that AIDS was created by the West in order to weaken poorer countries, and repeated a previous claim that homosexual Iranians did not exist. He has also described homosexuality as "ugly".

 الجامعات

انظر أيضاً: Higher education in Iran

أحمدي نجاد يتحدث في جامعة كلومبيا

In 2006, the Ahmadinejad government reportedly forced numerous Iranian scientists and university professors to resign or to retire. It has been referred to as the "second cultural revolution". The policy has been said to replace old professors with younger ones. Some university professors received letters indicating their early retirement unexpectedly. In November 2006, 53 university professors had to retire from Iran University of Science and Technology.

In 2006, Ahmadinejad's government applied a 50% quota for male students and 50% for female students in the university entrance exam for medicine, dentistry and pharmacy. The plan was supposed to stop the growing presence of female students in the universities. In a response to critics, Iranian minister of health and medical education, Kamran Bagheri Lankarani argued that there are not enough facilities such as dormitories for female students. Masoud Salehi, president of Zahedan University said that presence of women generates some problems with transportation. Also, Ebrahim Mekaniki, president of Babol University of Medical Sciences, stated that an increase in the presence of women will make it difficult to distribute facilities in a suitable manner. Bagher Larijani, the president of Tehran University of Medical Sciences made similar remarks. According to Rooz Online, the quotas lack a legal foundation and are justified as support for "family" and "religion".

 احتجاجات الطلبة، ديسمبر 2006

In December 2006, it was reported that some students were angry about the International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust, which they saw as promoting Holocaust denial.

In response to the students' slogans, the president said: "We have been standing up to dictatorship so that no one will dare to establish dictatorship in a millennium even in the name of freedom. Given the scars inflicted on the Iranian nation by agents of the US and British dictatorship, no one will ever dare to initiate the rise of a dictator." It was reported that even though the protesters broke the TV cameras and threw hand-made bombs at Ahmadinejad, the president asked the officials not to question or disturb the protesters. In his blog, Ahmadinejad described his reaction to the incident as "a feeling of joy" because of the freedom that people enjoyed after the revolution.

One thousand students also protested the day before to denounce the increased pressure on the reformist groups at the university. One week prior, more than two thousand students protested at Tehran University on the country's annual student day, with speakers saying that there had been a crackdown on dissent at universities since Ahmadinejad was elected.

 البرنامج النووي

انظر أيضاً: Nuclear program of Iran

Ahmadinejad has been a vocal supporter of Iran's nuclear program, and has insisted that it is for peaceful purposes. He has repeatedly emphasized that building a nuclear bomb is not the policy of his government. He has said that such a policy is "illegal and against our religion". He also added at a January 2006 conference in Tehran that a nation with "culture, logic and civilization" would not need nuclear weapons, and that countries that seek nuclear weapons are those that want to solve all problems by the use of force.

In April 2006, Ahmadinejad announced that Iran had successfully refined uranium to a stage suitable for the nuclear fuel cycle. In a speech to students and academics in Mashhad, he was quoted as saying that Iran's conditions had changed completely as it had become a nuclear state and could talk to other states from that stand. On 13 April 2006, Iran's news agency, Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA), quoted Ahmadinejad as saying that the peaceful Iranian nuclear technology would not pose a threat to any party because "we want peace and stability and we will not cause injustice to anyone and at the same time we will not submit to injustice". Nevertheless, Iran's nuclear policy under Ahmadinejad's administration received much criticism, spearheaded by the United States and Israel. The accusations include that Iran is striving to obtain nuclear arms and developing long-range firing capabilities—and that Ahmadinejad issued an order to keep UN inspectors from freely visiting the nation's nuclear facilities and viewing their designs, in defiance of an IAEA resolution. Following a May 2009 test launch of a long-range missile, Ahmadinejad was quoted as telling the crowd that with its nuclear program, Iran was sending the West a message that "the Islamic Republic of Iran is running the show".

Despite Ahmadinejad's vocal support for the program, the office of the Iranian president is not directly responsible for nuclear policy. It is instead set by the Supreme National Security Council. The council includes two representatives appointed by the Supreme Leader, military officials, and members of the executive, judicial, and legislative branches of government, and reports directly to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who issued a fatwa against nuclear weapons in 2005. Khamenei has criticized Ahmadinejad's "personalization" of the nuclear issue.

Ahmadinejad vowed in February 2008 that Iran will not be held back from developing its peaceful nuclear program.

In October 2009, the United States, France, and Russia proposed a U.N.-drafted deal with Iran regarding its nuclear program, in an effort to find a compromise between Iran's stated need for a nuclear reactor and the concerns of those who are worried that Iran harbors a secret intent of developing a nuclear weapon. After some delay in responding, on 29 October, Ahmadinejad seemed to change his tone towards the deal. "We welcome fuel exchange, nuclear co-operation, building of power plants and reactors and we are ready to co-operate", he said in a live broadcast on state television. He added that Iran would not retreat "one iota" on its right to a sovereign nuclear program.

 الانتقادات الداخلية والجدل

 الاتهامات بالفساد

انظر أيضاً: 2011 Iranian embezzlement scandal and Iran Insurance embezzlement case

According to Brussels-based NGO International Crisis Group, Ahmadinejad has been criticized for attacking private "plunderers" and "corrupt officials", while engaging in "cronyism and political favouritism". Many of his close associates were appointed to positions for which they have no obvious qualifications, and "billion dollar no-bid contracts" were awarded to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), an organization with which he is strongly associated.

The scale of corruption under Mr. Ahmadinejad was of a different order, according to both reform-minded and conservative politicians.

 بيانات أخرى

Participants of the second Caspian Summit in October 2007. From left to right: President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliev, President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev, President of Russia Vladimir Putin and Ahmadinejad.

In June 2007, Ahmadinejad was criticized by some Iranian parliament members over his remark about Christianity and Judaism. According to Aftab News Agency, Ahmadinejad stated: "In the world, there are deviations from the right path: Christianity and Judaism. Dollars have been devoted to the propagation of these deviations. There are also false claims that these [religions] will save mankind. But Islam is the only religion that [can] save mankind." Some members of Iranian parliament criticized these remarks as being fuels to religious war.

Conservative MP Rafat Bayat has accused Ahmadinejad for a decline in observance of the required hijab for women, calling him "not that strict on this issue". Ahmadinejad was also accused of indecency by people close to Rafsanjani, after he publicly kissed the hand of a woman who used to be his school teacher.

 الأمم المتحدة وملاعب كرة القدم

There are two statements that led to criticism from some religious authorities. One concerns his speech at the United Nations, and the other concerns the attendance of women at football matches. During a visit to group of ayatollahs in Qom after returning from his 2005 speech to the UN General Assembly, Ahmadinejad stated he had "felt a halo over his head" during his speech and that a hidden presence had mesmerized the unblinking audience of foreign leaders, foreign ministers, and ambassadors. Ahmadinejad closed his speech with a call for the "mighty Lord" to "hasten the emergence" of Imam Mahdi. According to Iranian-American journalist Hooman Majd, the response given to Ahmadinejad at the assembly was offensive to the conservative religious leaders because an ordinary man cannot presume a special closeness to God or any of the Imams, nor can he imply the presence of the Mahdi.

In another statement in 2006, Ahmadinejad proclaimed (without consulting the clerics beforehand), that women be allowed into football stadiums to watch male football clubs compete. This proclamation "was quickly overruled" by clerical authorities, one of whom, Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Fazel Lankarani "refused for weeks to meet with President Ahmadinejad" in early 2007.

 النزاع الدستوري

In 2008, a serious conflict emerged between the Iranian President and the head of parliament over three laws approved by the Iranian parliament: "the agreement for civil and criminal legal cooperation between Iran and Kyrgyzstan", "the agreement to support mutual investment between Iran and Kuwait", and "the law for registration of industrial designs and trademarks". The conflict was so serious that the Iranian leader stepped in to resolve it. Ahmadinejad wrote a letter to the parliamentary speaker Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel, furiously denouncing him for the "inexplicable act" of bypassing the presidency by giving the order to implement legislation in an official newspaper. Ahmadinejad accused the head of parliament of violating Iranian constitutional law. He called for legal action against the parliament speaker. Haddad-Adel responded to Ahmadinejad accusing him of using inappropriate language in his remarks and letters.

 علي كردان

المقالة الرئيسية: علي كردان

In August 2008, Ahmadinejad appointed Ali Kordan as interior minister. Kordan's appointment was heavily criticized by Iranian parliamentarians, media and analysts after it came to light that a doctoral degree purportedly awarded to Kordan was fabricated, and that the putative issuer of the degree, Oxford University, had no record of Kordan receiving any degree from the university. It was also revealed that he had been jailed in 1978 for moral charges.

In November 2008, Ahmadinejad announced that he was against impeachment of Kordan by Iranian parliament. He refused to attend the parliament on the impeachment day. Kordan was expelled from office by Iranian parliament on 4 November 2008. 188 MPs voted against him. An impeachment of Kordan would push Ahmadinejad close to having to submit his entire cabinet for review by parliament, which was led by one of his chief political opponents. Iran's constitution requires that step if more than half the cabinet ministers are replaced, and Ahmadinejad replaced nine of 21 until that date.

 الخلاف مع البرلمان

Ahmadinejad speaking in the Majlis, Chairman Ali Larijani is also pictured

In February 2009, after Supreme Audit Court of Iran reported that $1.058 billion of surplus oil revenue in the (2006–2007) budget hadn't been returned by the government to the national treasury, Tensions between Larijani and Ahmadinejad continued into 2013.

Ahmadinejad criticized the National Audit Office for what he called its "carelessness", saying the report "incites the people" against the government.

In May 2011, several members of parliament threatened to initiate impeachment proceedings against Ahmadinejad after his merger of eight government ministries and the firing of three ministers without parliament's consent. According to the Majles news website, MP Mohammad Reza Bahonar stated, "legal purging starts with questions, which lead to warnings and end with impeachment". On 25 May, parliament voted to investigate another allegation, that Ahmadinejad had committed election irregularities by giving cash to up to nine million Iranians before the 2009 presidential elections. The vote came within hours after the allegations appeared in several popular conservative news sites associated with supreme leader Ali Khamenei, suggesting the supreme leader supported the investigation. The disputes were seen as part of the clash between Ahmadinejad and other conservatives and former supporters, including supreme leader Khamenei, over what the conservatives see as Ahmadinejad's confrontational policies and abuse of power.

 علاقته بالقائد الأعلى الإيراني

Ahmadinejad with Ali Khamenei, Ali Larijani and Sadeq Larijani in 2011

Early in his presidency, Ahmadinejad was sometimes described as "enjoy[ing] the full backing" of the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, and even as being his "protege". In Ahmadinejad's 2005 inauguration the supreme leader allowed Ahmadinejad to kiss his hand and cheeks in what was called "a sign of closeness and loyalty", and after the 2009 election fully endorsed Ahmadinejad against protesters.

However, as early as January 2008, signs of disagreement between the two men developed over domestic policies, and by the period of 2010–11 several sources detected a "growing rift" between them. The disagreement was described as centered on Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, a top adviser and close confidant of Ahmadinejad and opponent of "greater involvement of clerics in politics", who was first vice president of Iran until being ordered to resign from the cabinet by the supreme leader.

In 2009, Ahmadinejad dismissed Intelligence Minister Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje'i, an opponent of Mashaei. In April 2011, another Intelligence minister, Heydar Moslehi, resigned after being asked to by Ahmadinejad, but was reinstated by the supreme leader within hours. Ahmadinejad declined to officially back Moslehi's reinstatement for two weeks and in protest engaged in an "11-day walkout" of cabinet meetings, religious ceremonies, and other official functions. Ahmadinejad's actions led to angry public attacks by clerics, parliamentarians and military commanders, who accused him of ignoring orders from the supreme leader.

Conservative opponents in parliament launched an "impeachment drive" against him, four websites with ties to Ahmadinejad reportedly were "filtered and blocked", and several people "said to be close" to the president and Mashaei (such as Abbas Amirifar and Mohammed Sharif Malekzadeh) were arrested on charges of being "magicians" and invoking djinns. On 6 May 2011, it was reported that Ahmadinejad had been given an ultimatum to accept the leader's intervention or resign, and on 8 May, he "apparently bowed" to the reinstatement, welcoming back Moslehi to a cabinet meeting. The events have been said to have "humiliated and weakened" Ahmadinejad, though the president denied that there had been any rift between the two, and according to the semiofficial Fars News Agency, he stated that his relationship with the supreme leader "is that of a father and a son".

In 2012, Khamenei ordered a halt to a parliamentary inquiry into Ahmadinejad's mishandling of the Iranian economy. In 2016, Khamenei advised Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, his former ally with whom his relationship was strained after Ahmadinejad accused his son Mojtaba Khamenei of embezzling from the state treasury, to not run for president again.

 جنازة هوگو تشاڤيز

Ahmadinejad was criticised by the religious and political groups in Iran for photographs taken of him embracing Elena Frias de Chávez, the mother of recently deceased Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez, at his funeral. In the image, Ahmadinejad was thought to be holding her hands and in a cheek-to-cheek embrace; such an act, touching an unrelated woman, is considered haraam (forbidden) in some interpretations of Islam. Iranian government officials responded by stating that the image was a fake, then released a second photo showing Ahmadinejad in the same pose, but in this case hugging a man. This later photograph was debunked when it was discovered that the other man was Egyptian opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei, who had not been at the funeral.

 المحسوبية

One of the most frequent criticisms about Ahmadinejad was the nepotism in his governments. Nepotism was one of his habits in appointing senior government officials. His elder brother, Davoud, was appointed chief inspector at the presidency in 2005 and was in office until 2008. His sister, Parvin, served at the presidential's women's center. His nephew, Ali Akbar Mehrabian, served as the mining and industry minister in his cabinet. His daughter's father-in-law, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, served at several senior positions. His brother-in-law, Masoud Zaribafan, served as cabinet secretary.

 العلاقات الخارجية

المقالة الرئيسية: Foreign policy of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Countries visited by President Ahmadinejad during his terms in office

الرئيس الأفغاني حامد كرزاي مع الرئيس محمود أحمدي نجاد أثناء زيارة الأخير لأفغانستان في 10 مارس، 2010.

During Ahmadinejad's tenure as President of Iran the foreign policy of the country took a different approach from the previous administration. Relations with developed countries generally soured while relations with less-developed countries, including those in Africa and Latin America, rose. In light of the calls for sanctions on Iran for its nuclear weapons programme, Ahmadinejad and his foreign minister, Manouchehr Mottaki, traveled extensively throughout the two regions, as well as hosted other leaders. Relations with the ALBA states, and Venezuela, Bolivia, and Ecuador, in particular, were most strengthened. Relations with America during the Bush administration and Israel deteriorated further.

Ahmadinejad is an outspoken critic of the Western world and is often criticized for his hostility towards the United States, Israel, the United Kingdom and other Western nations.

 إسرائيل

المقالة الرئيسية: محمود أحمدي‌نژاد وإسرائيل

أحمدي‌نژاد برفقة قادة الدول المطلة على بحر قزوين، نوفمبر 2010.

Ahmadinejad abides by Iran's long-standing policy of refusing to recognize Israel as a legitimate state, and wants the Jewish people who immigrated to Israel to return to their "fatherlands".

In 2005, Ahmadinejad, in a speech praising the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini, was translated by Iranian state-run media as saying that "Israel must be wiped off the map." A controversy erupted over the translation, with specialists such as Juan Cole of the University of Michigan and Arash Norouzi of the Mossadegh Project pointing out that the original statement in Farsi did not say that Israel should be wiped off the map, but instead that it would collapse. The words 'Israel', 'map', and 'to wipe off' are non-existent in the Iranian speech's original. According to another IRNA translation, on the occasion of a commemoration of the anniversary of Khomeini's death on 3 June 2008, Ahmadinejad stated that "The corrupt element will be wiped off the map." Contextually, Ahmadinejad was quoting Khomeini's words about the imminent disappearance of the Soviet Union and the Shah's regime, and tacked on his remarks concerning Israel. In Katajun Amirpur's analysis, there is no implication in the text that Iran intended destroying Israel or annihilating the Jewish people, any more than Khomeini was suggesting with his words that the Russians, or the Iranian people themselves under the Shah would be extinguished. Ahmadinejad is on the record as stating that Iran had no plans to attack Israel. The statement itself was in fact a citation, with a minute verbal variation, of a remark made by Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979, which had created no furor at the time, but did so when Ahmadinejad quoted them in 2005.

أحمدي‌نژاد والرئيس البرازيلي لويز إناسيو لولا دا سيلڤا في طهران، 2010.

Dan Meridor, Israel's minister of intelligence and atomic energy said during an Al Jazeera interview that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had repeatedly said "that Israel is an unnatural creature, it will not survive. They didn't say, 'We'll wipe it out,' you're right, but, 'It will not survive.'" adding "If Iran says this, and continues to pile up uranium that they enrich, and build missiles in big numbers, and have a nuclear military plan—if you put all this together, you can't say, they don't really mean it." The Washington Post's fact-checker editor Glenn Kessler says the interpretation gets murkier when Ahmadinejad's quote is set against other Iranian propaganda. Karim Sadjadpour, an Iranian specialist at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, cites proof that the Iranian government releases propaganda that clearly says Israel should be "wiped off". Joshua Teitelbaum of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs discovered pictures of Iranian propaganda banners that clearly say in English: "Israel should be wiped out of the face of the world." In March 2016, Iran tested a ballistic missile painted with the phrase "Israel should be wiped off the Earth" in Hebrew. The missile is reported to be capable of reaching Israel.

أحمدي‌نژاد والرئيس الروسي ڤلاديمير پوتن في بكين، 2012.

The Official Web site of the President of Iran quoted Ahmadinejad as saying on 15 May 2011 "The reason for our insistence that the Zionist regime should be wiped out and vanished is that the Zionist regime is the main base for imposing oppression and harbors the main terrorists of the world."

في 13 يوليو 2026 نشرت نيويورك تايمز تقريراً يفيد بأن الموساد الإسرائيلي عمل لسنوات على تجنيد أحمدي‌نژاد، ودرس إمكانية تنصيبه رئيساً لإيران في حال نجاح خطة لتغيير النظام القائم في إيران أثناء حرب 2026. من جهته، نفى أحمدي‌نژاد بشكل قاطع ما ورد في التقرير، واصفاً هذه الادعاءات بأنها "كاذبة بالكامل". يبدأ التقرير من جامعة لودوڤيكا، بالعاصمة المجرية بوداپشت، حيث جرى في أوائل عام 2024 ترتيب لقاء بين ضباط من الموساد والرئيس الإيراني السابق أحمدي‌نژاد، ضمن مؤتمر علمي للحديث عن تغير المناخ. وبحسب التقرير، فإن هذا اللقاء - الذي تكرر في العام التالي 2025، كان ثمرة جهود إسرائيلية استمرت لسنوات من أجل تجنيد الرئيس الإيراني السابق، والذي كان يجري الإعداد لتنصيبه قائداً جديداً لإيران. وذكر التقرير أن رئيس الموساد آنذاك داڤيد برنياع، حضر إلى بوداپشت عام 2024 كي يلتقي أحمدي‌نژاد بصفة شخصية، بحسب مسؤولين أمريكيين سابقين. وبحسب التقرير، فإن أحمدي‌نژاد التقى خلال السنوات الأخيرة بضباط من الموساد أكثر من مرّة خارج البلاد، ولا سيما في بوداپشت؛ كما أنه تلقى أموالاً بصورة سرّية من إسرائيل. ويقول التقرير إن نجاد كان يسعى للعودة إلى رأس السلطة في إيران، وأنه كان مُحبطاً من نظام الحكم في البلاد والذي يحول دون انتخابه ثلاث مرات رئيساً، ومن ثم رأى في زوال هذا النظام ضرورة لوصوله هو إلى السلطة - وقد تلقّفتْ إسرائيل هذا الخيط. وذكر التقرير أن هذا التعاون بلغ قمّته في فبراير 2026، خلال الأيام الأولى من الحرب الأمريكية والإسرائيلية على إيران، وذلك عبر قيام عناصر من الموساد بنقل نجاد من مَقر كان يخضع فيه لحراسة مشدّدة في طهران إلى مكان آخر آمِن داخل إيران. واختفى نجاد عن الأنظار حتى 13 يوليو 2026 حين ظهر في جنازة القائد الأعلى الراحل علي خامنئي؛ ويرى مُطّلعون على الأمر أن أحمدي‌نژاد أُحبط من عدم نجاح الخطة الإسرائيلية لإعادته للسلطة، ما دفعه إلى مغادرة مَخبئه الذي نقلته إليه إسرائيل في بداية الحرب.

ونقل التقرير عن أربعة مسؤولين إيرانيين رفيعي المستوى القول إن أحمدي‌نژاد حالياً في قبضة جناح المخابرات التابع للحرس الثوري الإيراني بعد انكشاف تعاملاته مع إسرائيل. ويشير التقرير إلى أن الرئيس الإيراني السابق كان جزءاً من خطة إسرائيلية طموحة للإطاحة بالنظام في طهران تتضمّن تسليح قوات كردية-إيرانية معارِضة متمركزة في شمال العراق وتدريبها بهدف الاستعانة بها لقلب النظام. كما ذكر التقرير أن أحمدي‌نژاد كان يرى في نفسه القدرة على القيام بدور إصلاحي في إيران غداة الإطاحة بالنظام القائم، على غرار الدور الذي لعبه الرئيس الروسي السابق، بوريس يلتسن؛ وأنه (نجاد) كان يتخوّف من استقدام أمريكا معارضين إيرانيين في الخارج لقيادة إيران بعد الإطاحة بنظام خامنئي. ورصد التقرير كيف تحوّل أحمدي‌نژاد على عدة أصعدة في سبيل تحقيق حلمه بالعودة إلى رأس السلطة في إيران – بدءاً من آرائه تجاه إسرائيل التي كان يدعو إلى محوها من الوجود، وصولاً إلى هندامه الشخصي.

 جدل إنكار الهولوكوست

He was strongly criticized after claiming that the Jews invented the Holocaust and making other statements influenced by "classic anti-Semitic ideas", which has led to accusations of antisemitism. Ahmadinejad denied that he was an antisemite, saying that he "respects Jews very much" and that he was not "passing judgment" on the Holocaust. Later, Ahmadinejad claimed that promoting Holocaust denial was a major achievement of his presidency; he stated that "put[ting] it forward at the global level ... broke the spine of the Western capitalist regime". The comments appeared on the Arabic but not on the English version of Fars News Agency's website.

 فلسطين

Demonstration against Ahmadinejad during the Rio+20 conference in Brazil

Ahmadinejad advocates "free elections" for the region, and believes Palestinians need a stronger voice in the region's future. On Quds Day in September 2010 he criticized the Palestinian Authority over its president's decision to renew direct peace talks with Israel saying the talks are "stillborn" and "doomed to fail", urging the Palestinians to continue armed resistance to Israel. He said that Mahmoud Abbas had no authority to negotiate on behalf of the Palestinians. Nabil Abu Rudeineh, a spokesman for the Palestinian Authority, fired back, saying, Ahmadinejad "does not represent the Iranian people, ..., is not entitled to talk about Palestine, or the President of Palestine".

 لبنان

في 16 أكتوبر، 2010، وصل الرئيس أحمدي نجاد إلى جنوب لبنان في اليوم الثاني والأخير من زيارته، حيث ألقى كلمة وسط حشود واسعة في بلدة بنت جبيل المحاذية لإسرائيل التي حلقت مروحياتها في المنطقة الحدودية بالتزامن مع زيارة أحمدي نجاد إلى البلدة. وفي تلك الكلمة أشاد أحمدي نجاد بالمقاومة في بنت جبيل التي وصفها بأنها معقل الحرية والشرفاء وقلعة المقاومة وعرين الانتصارات، كما أثنى على ثبات المقاومة التي أصبحت نموذجا يحتذى به. وأضاف الرئيس الإيراني أن بنت جبيل حية وستبقى مرفوعة الرأس منتصرة وعزيزة أمام كل الأعداء، فيما أن مصير الصهاينة هو الزوال، وذكر بأن أبناء بلدة جبيل أذاقوا العدو الإسرائيلي طعم الهزيمة النكراء وأدخلوا اليأس إلى قلوب الصهاينة, وأضاف الرئيس الإيراني أن فلسطين سوف تتحرر من رجس الاحتلال بفضل المقاومة وأن راية العدالة قادمة إلى المنطقة.

كما قال أحمدي نجاد في كلمته إنه جاء إلى لبنان لينقل تحية القيادة الإيرانية إلى اللبنانيين وليقدم الشكر للشعب اللبناني بصغاره وكباره بكل أطيافه ومشاربه ومذاهبه ولكي يشد على أيدي الشعب اللبناني الباسل.

وقبل وصول أحمدي نجاد إلى جنوب لبنان كانت الاستعدادات مكثفة هناك من أجل تنظيم استقبال أبطال له قبل أن يتفقد مشاريع إعادة إعمار مولتها إيران في بنت جبيل وجوارها بعد حرب صيف العام 2006، وقبل أن يزور مقبرة شهداء المجزرتين التي ارتكبها سلاح الجو الإسرائيلي في قانا عامي 1996 وعام 2006.

ويذكر أن بنت جبيل التي تبعد أربعة كيلومترات عن الحدود مع إسرائيل كانت مسرحا لأشرس المعارك أثناء العدوان الإسرائيلي على لبنان في صيف 2006، وأصبحت تلقب بعاصمة المقاومة، في إشارة إلى صمود مقاتلي حزب الله وصدهم لكل تقدم بري للجيش الإسرائيلي.

وقبل التوجه إلى الجنوب أجرى أحمدي نجاد صباح اليوم محادثات مع رئيس الحكومة سعد الحريري الذي أقام له غداء تكريميا حضره رئيس الجمهورية ميشال سليمان ورئيس مجلس النواب نبيه بري ولم تعقبه أي تصريحات سياسية.

وقبل ذلك التقى أحمدي نجاد مع نحو أربعين شخصية لبنانية، بينها رئيس التيار الوطني الحر النائب ميشال عون ورئيس اللقاء الديمقراطي وليد جنبلاط ورئيس الوزراء الأسبق سليم الحص، فيما غاب عن اللقاء قادة بارزون في فريق 14 آذار حسبما أفادته مراسلة الجزيرة في بيروت. وكان نجاد قد زار قبل ذلك الجامعة اللبنانية بضواحي بيروت، حيث منح درجة الدكتوراه الفخرية في العلوم السياسية.

 الولايات المتحدة

انظر أيضاً: Iran–United States relations during the G.W. Bush administration and Iran–United States relations during the Obama administration

In September 2010, Ahmadinejad made a contentious assertion at the 65th session of the United Nations General Assembly by claiming that most people believe the United States government was behind the 9/11 attacks and later called for an inquiry, stating: "The fact-finding mission can shed light on who the perpetrators were, who is al-Qaeda ... where does it exist? Who was it backed by and supported? All these should come to light." The speech triggered many countries' United Nations representatives to walk out, and US President Barack Obama described the claims as "inexcusable", "offensive" and "hateful". In 2010, Ahmadinejad reiterated the 9/11 conspiracy, and wrote:

Establishing an independent and impartial committee of investigation, which would determine the roots and causes of the regrettable event of 9/11, is the demand of all the peoples of the region and the world. ... Any opposition to this legal and human demand means that 9/11 was premeditated in order to achieve the goals of occupation and of confrontation with the nations.

He made similar comments at the 66th session in September 2011.

 ڤنزويلا

Ahmadinejad is said to have "forged a close public friendship" with Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez. On Chavez's death in March 2013, Ahmadinejad posted a condolence message on his website stating, "I have no doubt that he [Chavez] will return alongside Jesus Christ and Mahdi to establish peace and justice in the world".

Ahmad Khatami a senior Iranian cleric said that Ahmadinejad went "too far" with his comments. Hossein Rouhaninejad of Iran's Islamic development organisation said the president's remarks were against Shia Islam beliefs. Another senior cleric, Seyed Mahdi rebuked Ahmadinejad saying his comments were "legally and religiously wrong".

 ما بعد الرئاسة (2013-الحاضر)

Ahmadinejad in his presidential museum, known as Office of the Former President of Islamic Republic of Iran

Ahmadinejad left his office at Pasteur St. on 3 August 2013 and returned to his private house in Narmak.

In an interview with CNN, Ahmadinejad said that, after the end of his presidency, he would return to the university and retire from politics; however, Ahmadinejad announced from Russia on the sidelines of an OPEC summit on 2 July 2013 that he might stay involved with politics by creating a new party or non-governmental organization. In late July, Mehr news agency reported that Ahmadinejad obtained permission from the Supreme Cultural Revolution Council to launch a university for post-graduate studies in Tehran. On 5 August 2013, the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei issued a decree appointing Ahmadinejad as a member of the Expediency Council. On 15 June 2015, a number of Ahmadinejad's cabinet ministers established a new political party, called YEKTA Front. The party published list for 2016 legislative election and some of Ahmadinejad's cabinet members (like Hamid-Reza Haji Babaee, Sadeq Khalilian, Mohammad Abbasi and Mahmoud Bahmani) registered for the election, but Ahmadinejad did not support any list in the election.

 الانتخابات الرئاسية 2017

Ahmadinejad in 2021

It was rumored that Ahmadinejad would run for president again in 2017 after he did not deny plans when questioned by the media in 2015. Ahmadinejad remained mostly out of the public eye after leaving office, but his anti-Western rhetoric and combative style remained popular among many Iranian Principlists, and he was widely viewed as among the most formidable political figures capable of unseating Hassan Rouhani. In December 2015, it was reported that he had begun his presidential campaign by appointing his campaign's chiefs. He also began provincial travels in April 2016 by traveling to Amol. Travels were continued until September 2016, when he traveled to Gorgan. Ahmadinejad's advisors said his travels were not electoral and he only delivered speeches due to public demand. In September 2016, it was rumored that Ahmadinejad had asked Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran, for permission to run for the office and was rejected by Khamenei, who said that it was not in the best interests of Iran. On 26 September 2016, Khamenei confirmed the news, but stated that it was only advice, not an order. It was the first time since Khamenei's election as Supreme Leader in 1989 that he advised a person to not run for election. Formerly, some candidates had asked him for advice (former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani for his campaign in 2005 and 2013), but Khamenei chose to not give his opinion on those occasions. The following day, Ahmadinejad officially announced he would not run in the upcoming 2017 presidential election. He later supported Hamid Baghaei's candidacy. However, Ahmadinejad registered as presidential candidate on 12 April 2017. He was disqualified by the Guardian Council on 20 April 2017, making him the second person after Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani to be barred from running for a third presidential term.

 الاحتجاجات الإيرانية 2017-2018

During the 2017–18 Iranian protests, Ahmadinejad criticized the current government of Iran and later supreme leader Ali Khamenei.

 الغزو الروسي لأوكرانيا 2022

On 2 March 2022, Ahmadinejad expressed his support for Ukraine and the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. On Twitter, he stated that Iran stands with Ukraine and expressed his admiration of the Ukrainian resistance while claiming that "the resistance uncovered the Satanic plots of enemies of mankind". He also warned the President of Russia Vladimir Putin that if he failed to stop the invasion, he would have "no achievement" to show for it, only remorse. Ahmadinejad's views on the Russian invasion are in stark contrast to the official pro-Russian stance of the Government of Iran, which blamed NATO and the United States for instigating the war.

 العقوبات الأمريكية

On 19 August 2023, following a prisoner swap between Iran and the United States, the United States Department of the Treasury sanctioned Ahmadinejad under Executive Order 14078 in September for his involvement in detaining several U.S. citizens. According to the Treasury Department, Ahmadinejad had provided material support to the Ministry of Intelligence and Security and during his presidency was involved with the detention of Robert Levinson and three U.S. hikers by appointing Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje'i and Heydar Moslehi in 2005 and 2009 as the Minister of Intelligence respectively, who oversaw the detention of U.S. citizens during their tenures. Ahmadinejad was also being considered for further sanctions under Executive Order 13599.

 الانتخابات الرئاسية 2024

On 2 June, Ahmadinejad expressed interest in running in the election and applied to be considered as a candidate. However, he was disqualified from running on 9 June.

 حرب إيران 2026

On 28 February 2026, the first day of the 2026 Iran war, reports emerged that a house belonging to Ahmadinejad in Narmak, Tehran was struck and allegedly destroyed; the attack killed three members of the IRGC who were serving as his bodyguards. He was originally reported as killed in the strikes; however, later reports contradicted this. His freedom of movement had been restricted by the authorities after the 2025–2026 Iranian protests, but the airstrike caused him to escape the official restrictions on his movements according to The Atlantic. A New York Times report in May 2026, as summarized by other outlets, said that U.S. and Israeli officials had discussed a plan to free Ahmadinejad from house arrest and potentially support him as a post-Khamenei leader. The report was met with skepticism, and The Guardian noted that the plans were widely viewed as implausible or as possible disinformation. Further reporting by the New York Times revealed that Ahmadinejad had met with Israeli intelligence officers in Guatemala and Hungary to discuss the plans, which eventually fell through. On 6 July, he was spotted at the state funeral of Ali Khamenei.

في 28 فبراير 2026، وردت أنباء عن استهداف منزل أحمدي‌نژاد في منطقة نارمك بطهران وتدميره أثناء الغارات الإسرائيلية-الأمريكية على إيران؛ وأسفر الهجوم عن مقتل ثلاثة من عناصر الحرس الثوري الإيراني كانوا يعملون كحراس شخصيين له. إلا أن منزل أحمدي‌نژاد نفسه لم يتضرر، وتشير بعض التقارير إلى أنه لم يصب بأذى.

 الانتماء الحزبي

انظر أيضاً: Deviant current

قالب:Conservatism in Iran Ahmadinejad had been an active and prominent member of the right-wing Islamic Society of Engineers since its establishment until 2005. As of 2014, he was still a member of the party but had not been active since 2005. He was also a founding member of the Society of Devotees of the Islamic Revolution, but left in 2011.

Since 2005, Ahmadinejad had introduced himself as non-partisan, even anti-party and did not try to gain support of political parties despite being supported by the conservative camp. A National Democratic Institute report published in 2009 stated that Ahmadinejad is a self-described "principlist".

 جوائز وتكريمات

• إيران:
  • Order of Islamic Revolution (2005) (automatic upon taking presidential office)
• بنين:
  • Grand Cross of the National Order of Benin (2013)
• كوبا:
  • Honorary doctorate in political science from University of Havana (2012)
• لبنان:
  • Honorary doctorate in political science from Lebanese University (2010)
• نيكاراگوا:
  • Order of Augusto César Sandino, Batalla de San Jacinto, 1st Class (2007)
  • Order of Rubén Darío (2007)
• ڤنزويلا:
  • Collar of the Order of the Liberator (2006)

 الصورة العامة

Ahmadinejad was known for his vulgarism, undiplomatic language and usage of slang terms. He was active on Twitter, where he engaged his followers primarily in English and tweets about sports, the United States, and current events.

According to a poll conducted by Information and Public Opinion Solutions LLC (iPOS) in March 2016, Ahmadinejad was the least popular political figure in Iran. He had 57% approval and 39% disapproval ratings, thus a +18% net popularity.

In 2017, polls conducted by Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM) and IranPoll with ±3.2% margin of error shows his approval rating as follows:

Date	Very favorable	Somewhat favorable	Somewhat unfavorable	Very unfavorable	Don't recognize the name	DK/NA
July 2014	34%	33%	14.0%	16.0%	1.0%	3.0%
August 2015	27.5%	33.5% ▲	13.0% ▼	22.8% ▲	0.2%	3.0%
January 2016	24.2%	32.8%	15.0% ▲	23.9% ▲	0.4%	3.7%
June 2016	28.0% ▲	37.3% ▲	14.9% ▼	16.1% ▼	0.4%	3.3%
December 2016	27.2%	33.6%	13.9% ▼	19.5% ▲	0.4%	5.4%

An independent poll conducted for IranWire by Stasis in October 2020 found that 37% of respondents would vote for Ahmadinejad if he could be a candidate for the upcoming 2021 Iranian presidential election. This was the highest percentage among all the potential nominees, largely ahead of his rival Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, who came second with 10%.

 حياته الشخصية

Ahmadinejad is married, and has one daughter and two sons. His elder son married a daughter of Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei in 2008.

Supporters of Ahmadinejad consider him a simple man who leads a modest life. As president, he wanted to continue living in the same house in Tehran his family had been living in until his security advisers insisted that he should move. Ahmadinejad had the antique Persian carpets in the Presidential palace sent to a carpet museum, and opted instead to use inexpensive carpets. He was said to have refused the VIP seat on the presidential plane, and that he eventually replaced it with a cargo plane instead. Upon gaining Iran's presidency, Ahmadinejad held his first cabinet meeting in the Imam Reza shrine at Mashhad, an act perceived as "pious". He also used to lay an extra place for the 12th Imam at his weekly cabinet briefings.

 أعمال منشورة

A small corpus of Persian-language political and ideological works, consisting primarily of collected speeches, letters, and thematic statements was produced during Ahmadinejad's presidency:

Year	Original title (Persian)	English title
2007	تجلی هویت ایرانی در نیویورک	Manifestation of Iranian Identity in New York
2008	مهدویت و صلح کل: گفتارهایی از دکتر محمود احمدی‌نژاد پیرامون امام عصر (عج)	Mahdism and Universal Peace: Sayings on the Imam of the Age
	دیپلماسی‌نامه: نامه‌های رئیس‌جمهوری اسلامی ایران به سران کشورها، مردم آمریکا و پاپ بندیکت شانزدهم	The Diplomacy Book: Letters of the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran
2009	دولت ایرانی–اسلامی: سیری در مبانی و مؤلفه‌های تکوین دولت بومی در آرای دکتر محمود احمدی‌نژاد	The Iranian–Islamic State: Foundations of Indigenous Governance
	عدل و صلح: گفتارهای رئیس‌جمهوری اسلامی ایران در چهارمین سفر رسمی به آمریکا	Justice and Peace: Speeches during the Fourth Official Visit to the United States

 انظر أيضاً

• 2006 Iranian sumptuary law controversy
• Advisors to the president: Hamid Mowlana, Mohammad-Ali Ramin, Ali Akbar Javanfekr
• Ayatollah Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi
• Politics of Iran
• Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Israel
• Electoral history of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
• Foreign policy of the Mahmoud Ahmadinejad administration
• Controversies of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
• Iran So Far (A Lonely Island Digital Short)

 قراءات إضافية

• Encyclopedia of World Biography: Supplement #27 (Thomson-Gale, 2007) pp 7–9
• Harris, David (2004), The Crisis: the President, the Prophet, and the Shah—1979 and the Coming of Militant Islam, New York: Little, Brown, ISBN 978-0-316-32394-9, https://archive.org/details/crisispresidentp00harr 
• "Referral of Iranian President Ahmadinejad on the Charge of Incitement to Commit Genocide" Archived 15 نوفمبر 2012 at the Wayback Machine by Justus Reid Weiner, Esq., with Amb. Meir Rosenne, Prof. Elie Wiesel, Amb. Dore Gold, Irit Kohn, Adv., Amb. Eytan Bentsur, and MK Dan Naveh
• Ali Rahnema, Superstition as Ideology in Iranian Politics: From Majlesi to Ahmadinejad, Cambridge University Press, 2011 (Reviewed in The Montréal Review) ISBN 978-0-521-18221-8

 وصلات خارجية

• Blog of Former President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
• Biography Archived 1 ديسمبر 2007 at the Wayback Machine (in إسپانية) at CIDOB Foundation
• Video Archive of Ahmadinejad during his presidency at Irannegah.com
• Appearances on C-SPAN
• محمود أحمدي‌ نجاد at the Internet Movie Database
• محمود أحمدي‌ نجاد collected news and commentary at The Guardian
• محمود أحمدي‌ نجاد collected news and commentary at Ha'aretz
• قالب:Jerusalem Post topic
• محمود أحمدي‌ نجاد collected news and commentary at The New York Times
• People Who Mattered: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Time, 16 December 2006
• The Results As They Came In, Andrew Sullivan, The Atlantic, 13 June 2009

مناصب سياسية
سبقه حسين طاهري بصفته حاكم أذربيجان الشرقية	حاكم أردبيل 1993–1997	تبعه حميد طياهي
سبقه حسن مالك‌مدني	عمدة طهران 2003–2005	تبعه محمد باغر غاليباف
سبقه محمد خاتمي	رئيسس إيران 2005–2013	تبعه حسن روحكاني
مناصب دبلوماسية
سبقه عبد العزيز بوتفليقة	رئيس مجموعة 15 2006–2010	تبعه ماهندا راجاپاكشا
سبقه محمد مرسي	أمين عام حركة عدم الانحياز 2012–2013	تبعه حسن روحاني
مناصب حزبية
لقب حديث تأسيس المنظمة	رئيس المقرات الانتخابية لتحالف بناة إيران الإسلامية الانتخابات المحلية 2003	تبعه Hossein Fadaei