Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad محموداحمدینژاد , born the October 28th 1956 with Garmsar, village located at 90 km of Teheran, is a Politician Iran IEN, Maire of Teheran of the May 3rd 2003 with the June 28th 2005, and President elected République ic Islam of Iran since the August 3rd 2005.

He is member of the Islamic Société of the engineers, but has a more powerful base in the Alliance of the builders of Islamic Iran ( Abadgaran ) and is regarded as one of the most important characters of the alliance of the conservatives.

Biography

Resulting from a modest family, her father is Forgeron, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad obtains a doctorate in public transport of the Iranian University of Sciences and Technology. As of its entry at the university, it militates in the islamist trade union studying Bureau of reinforcement of the unit and becomes the representative of its university at the central committee of the trade union. This trade union is one of the groups at the origin of the taken of hostage to the embassy of the the United States in Teheran in 1979. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, according to two litigious photographic stereotypes, as well as the testimony of former American diplomats, would actively have taken part in it. But the CIA does not confirm it. This bringing together is highly contradicted by the Iranian government which sees an attempt at destabilization there.

It takes an active share with the Guerre between Iran and Iraq in the Années 1980, like combatant, then officer of the revolutionary Gardes and finally as military engineer. During this period, it would have taken part in the commando who will cost the life two Iranian Kurdish opponents with Vienna (of which Dr. Ghassemlou). The CIA as well as the Israeli secret services would also charge to him the responsibility for the attack against the Jewish arts center of Buenos Aires in 1994, but nothing to date comes to support this assertion.

Political course

Mr. Ahmadinejad becomes governor of the Province of Ardabil of 1993 at October 1997, and in 2003 is presented in the form of a " candidate of the peuple" with the town hall of Teheran. Its statute of officer in the body of the Guards of the Islamic revolution and in the fundamentalist militia of the Bassidji is worth to him the support of the most religious part of the population. It is also supported by the poor ones which sees in the return to the principle of the Islamic revolution of 1979 that Ahmadinejad promises, a means of stopping their generalized impoverishment. Mr. Ahmadinejad is elected after a poll which joined together only 13% of the voters. He runs up very quickly against the " réformateurs" of the President-in-Office Mohammad Khatami. He reconsiders the modifications of the preceding municipal team and changes the municipal personnel by members of his mobility, more conservatives. Mr. Khatami prohibits to him to take part in the the Council of Ministers, whereas a place is traditionally reserved to the mayor of the capital.

He presents to the presidential election June 17th 2005 and arrives, in an unexpected way, in second position with 19,5 % of the voices behind the former president Ali Akbar Hachemi Rafsandjani who obtains 21 % of the voices. The conservative candidate Mohammed Qalibaf, given second according to the surveys, complains about massive frauds. At the time of the second turn of the June 24th, Mr. Ahmadinejad faces Mr. Rafsandjani and carries it largely with 62,2 % of the voices against 35,3 % with Rafsandjani. Multiple complaints for frauds are deposited against the pressures exerted by the militia Basij, near to Ahmadinejad, in many polling stations. The economic failures of the reformers of former president Khatami strengthened the support of poorest for the return to the principles of the Islamic revolution and Ahmadinejad.

Thursday December 15th 2005, whereas it was in official trip in the south-east of its country, the presidential procession was the target of gangsters and troublemakers on the highway Zabol - Saravan. At least one of its bodyguards was killed and another casualty, while Mr. Ahmadinejad left himself there unscathed.

Interior policy

Mr. Ahmadinejad is a conservative. He is close to the Iranian supreme guide Ali Khamenei, but its standpoint on the international scene irritates many politicians in Iran.

Economy

Ahmadinejad subjected its first annual Budget, covering the period April 2006 - March 2007, with the Iranian Parliament the January 15th 2006. This proposal asked for total expenditure of 1.956 thousand billion Rial S (169 billion Euros), representing an increase of 27% compared to the budget 2005 - 2006. The forecasts on the incomes related to oil, representing a significant proportion of the tax incomes, were based on a price of the barrel to export estimated at 39,7 US$ the barrel. The proposal for a budget announced also a call to the State Banks to allocate most of their resources to loans with consumption for the families with weak incomes and the small companies in the little developed areas.

This proposal for a budget 2006-2007 should be a operational budget in which the funds would be allocated on the basis of awaited benefit of an operation rather than of a division of the budget between the organizations. 0,6% of GDP were allocated with the scientific research, a little in lower part of half of what is required by the 4th Five-year plan of social development and economic (i.e 1,25% of the GNP)

In June 2006, 50 Iranian economists wrote a letter with president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, criticizing the intervention of the state on the prices having for goal to stabilize the prices of the goods, cement and the governmental services, like countering a decree emitted by the High council of Work and the Ministry of Labor proposing a wage increase of 40%. Ahmadinejad publicly replied in a rather hard way to the letter and denounced these charges.

Housing

The first law of its government lately formed was the creation of funds equipped with 12 thousand billion rials (1.2 billion Euros) called " Fund of the compassion of Reza" , bottom named according to one of the Imam S Shiite, Ali rear-Wrinkled. While making use of the oil incomes of Iran, the government of Ahmadinejad declares that this bottom will be used in order to help young people to find a work and to be able to finance their marriage as well as to buy their own houses. The bottom seeks also donations, and lays out of associations of charity in each of the 30 Iranian provinces. This new plan is prone to the approval of the Majles, mainly preserving, but has few chances to meet an opposition, since the deputies of Majles also showed a strong determination to solve the economic problems. This legislation is an answer to the high price of the residences in the urban centres, which makes go up the age of the marriage (currently around 25 years for the men and 28 years for the women). In 2006, the Iranian Parliament rejected the formation of this funds. However, Ahmadinejad would have put its proposal in practice while ordering to the administrative counsel to carry out it.

Women's rights

The April 24th 2006, Ahmadinejad announced that a rule which prevented the women from looking at men making sport in the stages would be cancelled soon. An advertisement of national television reported that Ahmadinejad " ordered that the director of the organization of the sports should implement installations in the stages in order to look at the national matches. Ahmadinejad said that the best places should be held to the women and to the families in the stages in which important matches national takes place. Two days earlier, Ahmadinejad had been opposed to the punishment imposed to the women appearing in the stages without covering the adequate Hijab. Its remark put in unquestionable angers supporters. Shortly after these remarks, several of the members of the clergy moreover high ranking ( Ayatollah S and Marja S ) of which Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi, Large Ayatollah Nouri Hamedani, Large Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi, Large Ayatollah Safi Golpaygani, Large Ayatollah Fazel Lankarani and Ayatollah Mirza Javad Tabrizi were opposed to this decision, appealing for the urgent cancellation of this kind. With Qom, many members of the clergy expressed against this decision of the president. An news agency Shiite quoted one of the advisers of Ahmadinejad saying that the declaration of the president in connection with the presence of the women in the stages was a political measurement aiming at defending the Islamic regime against a conspiracy carried out by the United States. According to these reports/ratios, the government of Ahmadinejad thinks that the presence of the women in the stages is against the Charia and must thus be banished, as opposed to what they said before. In fact, the supreme guide, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei put his veto has this decision while declaring the opinion of the religious clergy must be respected and the decision (presidential) reconsidered. . This policy would be intended to replace the old professors by young people. Many professors also received letters indicating their early withdrawal to them.

Crisis of the Iranian nuclear power

Mr. Ahmadinejad refuses any foreign interference in the development of the nuclear program Iranian. He denounces the armament of Iraq out of chemical weapons provided by the United States and of the European countries , during the Guerre Iran-Iraq.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, categorically disallowed, in this speech, pronounced on June 8th, 2006 in the town of Qazvin in the North-West of the country, and diffused by public television, the proposals of the 5 permanent members of the introduced Safety advice on June 6th, 2006 aiming to the abandonment by Iran of his programme of enrichment of uranium in exchange of an economic cooperation agreement and technological.

Foreign politics

Relations Iran-State-Plain

The diplomatic relations between the United States and Iran were broken following the business of the taking of 444 day old hostage of the embassy of the United States. It tries to join again the contact by sending a letter to the president of the the United States of America on May 8th, 2006, but the government of George W. Bush chooses not to answer it officially, reproaching him its character only " philosophique" and not finding nothing there again.

The 2006, in answer to the president George W. Bush who qualified in his speech on the state of the Union the Iranian forces to the capacity of “small clerical elite which isolates and oppresses its people” . The Head of State Iran IEN answers that “in the near future, we will judge to you in front of the court of the people. those which have to the elbow, the hands in the blood of the people which are implied everywhere where there are wars and the oppression, which start wars in Asia and Africa, which kill out of people per million. You who support the crimes of the mode marionette Zionist, you which support the destruction of the houses of the Palestinians, (...) you are not qualified to speak about the human rights and freedoms” .

The August 8th 2006, it gave an interview televised to Mike Wallace, a correspondent of 60 Minutes. It had been its first interview for American media for 6 months.

August 29th, 2006, it invited George W. Bush with a debate televised open on its plans concerning the civil nuclear program of Iran; this invitation was promptly declined by the White House.

Iran-Russia relations

Ahmadinejad tries to reinforce the relations with the Russia, setting up an office especially intended for this goal in October 2005. He worked with Vladimir Poutine on the nuclear question, and at the same time one and the other expressed a desire to see more mutual co-operation on the subjects related to the Caspian Sea. However, official of the information Western ones recently showed Ahmadinejad to materially help financially and in Iran the rebels in Chetchnia, who fight against Russia. Iran was however already expressed on the fact that he regarded the Tchétchène problem as a " business intern" in Russia.

Iran-Israel relations

In October 2005, Ahmadinejad made a speech containing of the contradictory positions in connection with Israel. According to the translations most largely published, he said “that he adhered to the remarks Ayatollah Khomeini according to which one day the mode Zionist would be striped chart” ^,.

The comments of Ahmadinejad were condemned by the majority of the Western governments, the European Union, the Russia, the Safety advice of the United Nations and the General secretary Kofi Annan. The Egyptian leaders , Turks and Palestinians also expressed their discomfort vis-a-vis this remark of Ahamadinejad. The Prime Minister for the Canada of the time, Paul Martin said that “this threat towards the existence of Israel, this call to a genocide coupled with the obvious nuclear ambitions of Iran is a subject which the world cannot be unaware of”.

The translation of this declaration was discussed. At the time of a given press conference on January 14th, 2006, Ahmadinejad declared in connection with its speech of October that there was no new policy, they created a whole resentment around this declaration. . In June 2006, a leader-writer of the Guardian, Jonathan Steele quoted several persophones and translators who said that the sentence in question would be translated more exactly by " balayé" " pages of the temps" or " pages of the histoire" rather than " striped carte" By re-examining the controversy on the translation, an editor of the NewYork Times, Ethan Bronner pointed out that " all the officielles" translations; comments, of which that of the Iranian Ministry for Foreign Affairs and office of the president " refer to sweep Israel well loin".

Ahmandinejad as compared the actions of Israel in the israélo-Lebanese Conflit of 2006 with the actions of Adolf Hitler during the Second world war while saying as " Hitler sought pretexts to tackle the others nations" and that " the mode Zionist seeks pretexts without bases in order to invade the Moslem countries and that in this moment, it justifies these attacks by excuses not fondées.".

The August 8th 2006, it gave an interview televised to Mike Wallace, a correspondent of 60 Minutes, in which it spoke about what it estimates to be the culpability of Israel for the sufferings of Lebanon, and of the justifications morals of the attacks to the missiles of the Hezbollah. Later in this interview, Ahmadinejad was requested to express its opinions concerning the State of Israel and one asked him to be explained in connection with his preceding declarations concerning the right to exist, the suggestion with the fact that the Israeli State should be moved in Europe, since they are Europeans who took the responsability for the Holocauste.

Political positions about Israel

The Iranian president is a follower of the shock formulas and revisionists and is constant in his remarks by the Neturei Karta Jewish movement ultra-orthodoxe millenarist opposed to the Sionisme. He supports Palestinian also regularly which is in fight against the State of Israel.

The December 8th 2005, Ahmadinejad denies the existence of the width of the Shoah, he asks the Germany and the Austria to yield part of their territory to establish the State of Israel.

The December 14th 2005, it denounces the “myth of the massacre of the Juif S” and proposes to create an Israeli state in Europe, with the the United States, the Canada or in Alaska, at the time of a speech retransmis on line by the Iranian television of state.

The January 6th 2006, following the hospitalization of Israeli the Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, the president Iran IEN is delighted by the imminence by dead of Sharon, qualified of criminal of Sabred and Chatila.

The October 20th 2006, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is addressed to the European countries who support Israel in front of crowd gathered to celebrate the " world day of Jérusalem". It underlines in this declaration that those which are held at the sides of the mode Zionist expose to the anger of the world.

The December 12th 2006, at the time of a conference on the holocaust organized in Teheran, Ahmadinejad tries to justify these remarks of October 2005, which had launched a polemic when he had declared that Israel was going to disappear.

See too

External bonds

official Blog of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Official site of the presidency

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