Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is the sixth and current President of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The son of a blacksmith, Ahmadinejad was
born on 28 October 1956 in Garmsar, near Tehran. He holds a PhD in
Traffic and Transport from Tehran's University of Science and
Technology. By profession, he is an engineer and a teacher.
Ahmadinejad became the President of Iran
on 3 August 2005, and was re-elected in 2009 amid international
criticism. The western media portrayed that his re-election has stirred
Iran’s worst political unrest since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Ahmadinejad is a controversial figure
internationally, but has gained popularity among his citizens because of
his stand to continue Iran's nuclear energy program against the western
criticism and the refusal to recognise Israel as a legitimate state.
Due to his courage shown against the
United States and the Zionist regime, Ahmadinejad has received
recognition among the Muslims all over the world including the Maldives.
Many Muslims consider him as a hero who has the courage to speak on
behalf of all the Muslims, against the US led pressure.
He has repeatedly slated the Zionist
state of Israel at international forums and in public rallies, and has
openly called for an end to the apartheid Israeli state.
Ahmadinejad rejected the Jewish version
of the Holocaust and described it as a myth. In October 2005 he made a
controversial statement, in which he envisaged the replacement of
Zionist state of Israel with a Palestinian state. The western media
interpreted the statement saying that he called to wipe off Israel from
the world map.
In an address to the United Nations last
September, President Ahmadinejad said some segments within the US
government orchestrated the 9/11 attacks to reverse the declining
American economy and tighten its grips on the Middle East, in order also
to save the Zionist regime. Ahmadinejad proposed that the United
Nations set up an independent fact-finding commission to determine what
happened on September11, 2001.
Considering the divisions and current
situation of Muslims around the world, Ahmadinejad is not in favour of
military intervention against the Zionist state of Israel, saying
instead Israel would vanish on its own.In his recent state visit to
Lebanon, Ahmadinejad said the Zionist regime is sliding towards
collapse, and no power on earth is capable of saving it.
He is also an outspoken critic against
veto power of the UN Security Council's five permanent members, calling
to extend the same privilege to the Muslims, as the population of the
Muslim world is more than 1.5 billion.
____________________________________________________________Written by: Ibrahim Mohamed
16 October 2010, Saturday
8 Zulqaida 1431
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