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Biography for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

First Name: Mahmoud

Last Name: Ahmadinejad

Title: President

Organization: Government of Iran

Country: Iran (Islamic Republic of)

Date of Birth: 1956

Place of Birth: Arādān village near Garmsar

Family: Son of a blacksmith, Mahmoud and his family moved to Tehran when he was one-year-old.

In Ardan Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,was born, the fourth of seven children.

Sister: Parvine Ahmadinejad
Brother: Davod Ahmadinejad

The Saborjhian ( his original name) family rented the two-storey house before leaving their impoverished environment in the late 1950s in search of prosperity in Tehran. Mr Ahmadinejad was little more than one year old when they went to the city.

Education:

He got his diploma and was admitted to the University of Science and Technology in the field of civil engineering after he ranked 130th in the nationwide university entrance exams in 1975.
He was accepted as an MS student at the same university in 1986 and got his PH.D. in 1987 in the field of engineering and traffic transportation planning.

CV:

After graduation, Ahmadinejad became a professor at the civil engineering department at IUST.
In 1979, Ahmadinejad was the head representative of IUST to the student gatherings that met with the Ayatollah Khomeini.
Ahmadinejad became a member of the Office of Strengthening Unity.
During the Iran-Iraq war, Ahmadinejad joined the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps in 1986.
After training at the headquarters, he saw action in extraterritorial covert operations against Kirkuk, Iraq.
Later he also became the head engineer of the sixth army of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and the head of the Corps' staff in the western provinces of Iran.
After the war, he has served as vice governor and governor of Maku and Khoy, an Advisor to the Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance, and the governor of the then newly established Ardabil province from 1993 to October 1997.
He was the mayor of Tehran from May 3, 2003 until June 28, 2005
As the Mayor of Tehran, Ahmadinejad also became the manager in charge of the daily newspaper Hamshahri
Politically, Ahmadinejad is a member of the Islamic Society of Engineers, but he also has a powerful base inside the Alliance of Builders of Islamic Iran (also known as Abadgaran).
He was elected president of Iran on June 24, 2005.

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