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Tuesday, September 27, 2016
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Tuesday, September 27, 2016
Iran’s Ahmadinejad says will not run for president again
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleFormer hardline Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says he will not compete in next year’s presidential vote, following advice from Iran’s supreme leader, media reports.
“In following the will of the great leader of the revolution, I have no plans to be present in next year’s presidential competitions,” he writes in a letter to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei published by Iranian media.
It comes a day after Khamenei, in his own cautiously worded remarks, said: “A certain person came to me and I told him not to do a certain thing, believing it would be to the benefit of both the person himself and the country.”
Khamenei implied that Ahmadinejad’s candidacy would create “a bi-polar atmosphere” that would “damage the country.”
— AFP
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