Presidency of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Ahmadinejad in 2012
Presidency of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
3 August 2005 – 3 August 2013
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
CabinetFirst cabinet, Second cabinet
PartySociety of Devotees
Election2005, 2009
SeatPasteur St. Building

Seal of the president

The Presidency of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad consists of the 9th and 10th governments of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Ahmadinejad's government began in August 2005 after his election as the 6th president of Iran and continued after his re-election in 2009. Ahmadinejad left office in August 2013 at the end of his second term. His administration was succeeded by the 11th government, led by Hassan Rouhani.

In Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government has seen controversy over policies such as his 2007 Gas Rationing Plan to reduce the country's fuel consumption, and cuts in maximum interest rates permitted to private and public banking facilities;[1][2][3] his widely disputed and protested election to a second term in 2009;[4][5] and over the presence of a so-called "deviant current" among his aides and supporters that led to the arrest of several of them in 2011.[6] Abroad, his dismissal of international sanctions against Iran's nuclear energy program, and his call for an end of the state of Israeli and description of the Holocaust as a myth, has drawn criticism.[7]

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  2. ^ مدیریت و" برنامه ریزی منحل ش" BBC Persian. Retrieved 29 July 2007. Archived 17 August 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ "Assembly of Experts to study economic reform plan: Rafsanjani". Tehran Times (in Persian). 23 August 2008. Archived from the original on 12 September 2008. Retrieved 23 August 2008.
  4. ^ "Iran clerics defy election ruling". BBC News. 5 July 2009. Retrieved 18 June 2011.
  5. ^ "Is this government legitimate?". BBC News. 4 July 2009. Retrieved 18 June 2011.
  6. ^ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warns opponents against detaining ministers, Saeed Kamali Dehghan, The Guardian, 29 June 2011
  7. ^ "Profile: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad". BBC. 4 August 2010. Retrieved 11 August 2011.