Iran: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad by Hossein Fatemi (45 images)

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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's diminutive president since 2005, is no stranger to controversy. He famously called for the State of Israel to be "wiped off the map" and has shown remarkable truculence in the face of international condemnation of the country's nuclear ambitions, forging ahead with an ambitious uranium enrichment programme.

But Iran's economy, largely dependent on oil exports, has been flagging of late, and a growing anti-government movement, violently...
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