Ahmadinejad registers to run for Iran’s presidency again

by Karen Faulkner, Worthy News Correspondent

(Worthy News) – Renowned for being a Holocaust denier who advanced Iran’s nuclear program, former Iranian former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad registered Wednesday as a candidate for his country’s presidency, the Associated Press reports. Ahmadinejad was previously in office for two four-year terms from 2005 to 2013.

Ahmadinejad is running for election to the office of the comparatively moderate President Hassan Rouhani, AP reports. While the 64-year-old former president is well known for violent rhetoric against the West, and Israel in particular, he is known as a hard-liner even within his own nation. When he attempted to run for office in 2017, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said his election would be “harmful for the country.”

Arriving for registration at the Interior Ministry, Ahmadinejad said: “My presence today for registration was based on demand by millions for my participation in the election.” He added that he had decided to run “considering the situation of the country, and the necessity for a revolution in the management of the country.”

Another candidate who registered on Wednesday is Rostam Ghasemi, a former general in Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, AP reports. 

 Ultimately a council led by Khamenei will decide if Ahmadinejad and other candidates can run in the June 18 election.

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