Ahmadinejad
Ahmadinejad is the surname of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, president of Iran from 2005 to 2013.
His tenure was marked by confrontational rhetoric toward Israel and the West, Holocaust denial, disputed elections in 2009 that sparked mass protests, and expansion of Iran's nuclear program.
The name appears in discussions of Iranian politics and Middle Eastern geopolitics.
Iran's capital city
- PersianOf or from Iran
- ShiaIslam's second-largest branch
- AyatollahSenior Shia clerical title
- KhameneiIran's highest authority
Khomeini · sanctions · Islam · theocracy · IAEA · clerical · hardliner · populist
Middle Eastern nation
- ZionismAdvocacy for Hebrew homeland
- anti-IsraelOpposed to the Jewish state
- defianceOpen resistance to authority
- rhetoricArt of persuasive language
confrontation · sanctions · West · Obama · Bush · diplomacy · Venezuela · Chavez
Organized public voting
- 2005A calendar year
- 2009Early twenty-first century
- administrationOrganizational oversight and control
- termFixed period or word
disputed · protests · reelection · inauguration · mandate · governance · cabinet · executive
Tehran
Iran's capital city
Khamenei · Khomeini · sanctions · Islam · theocracy · IAEA · clerical · hardliner · populist
Israel
Middle Eastern nation
- ZionismAdvocacy for Hebrew homeland
- anti-IsraelOpposed to the Jewish state
- defianceOpen resistance to authority
rhetoric · confrontation · sanctions · West · Obama · Bush · diplomacy · Venezuela · Chavez · anti-American
election
Organized public voting
- 2005A calendar year
- 2009Early twenty-first century
- administrationOrganizational oversight and control
term · disputed · protests · reelection · inauguration · mandate · governance · cabinet · executive · inflation
AhmadinejadAnwar Sadat
Barack Obama · Benjamin Netanyahu · Tony Blair · Angela Merkel · Yitzhak Rabin