According to my source Mousavi got 13,216,411(33%) and Ahmadinejad got 24,527,516 (62%) so was therefore announced as official winner.
No, it ended it.
He was elected by the Iranian people in a general election in both 2005 and 2009. However, many Iranians argue that these elections were rigged by the Iranian government.
Former Iranian president Ahmadinejad.
Larry King Live - 1985 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was released on: USA: 22 September 2010
I'm an Iranian. if you think for a second. you never ask it. now you answer me if Iranian people hate ahmadinejad how he could be president? we love him. he got 26million of 40million in president election in Iran. please after this first think than make question. thank you. Maybe 26 million voted for Ahmadinejad. Maybe. Most likely that number is false and fake. Iran was becoming a cosmopolitan, secular city. It was beautiful. Now, the religious fanatics have come to power and Iran is back in the 13th century.
Only distant Iranian cousins, but no first or second degree relatives (to anybody's knowledge).
There have been several statistical analyses which have lent moderate support for questionable practices. While political models are inherently rough estimates, the results of the election tended to run counter to what common models would predict. However, such models have never been terribly effective at determining Iranian political whims.Mousavi got 13,216,411(33%) and Ahmadinejad got 24,527,516 (62%) so Ahmadinejad was therefore announced as official winner.Additionally, high turnout in elections tends to favor opposition candidates. It is rare for high turnout to favor the incumbent, yet Ahmadinejad must have won a heavy portion of the additional votes as compared to the 2005 election or supporters of the opposition must have defected in droves to the conservative side (a somewhat outlandish proposition).Furthermore, Ahmadinejad's performance in areas where he was not favored to win are questionable. For example, Ahmadinejad won a majority in Mousavi's home district. While this is not entirely unheard of, politics in Iran tend to follow ethnic boundaries, and Mousavi's popularity in the region was thought to be high.There are also allegations of arbitrary vote alteration. The total vote count of the minor candidate Mohsen Rezaee dropped over the course of several hours as reported by PressTV, Iran's state-run, English language news station. There are also reportedly 14 million missing unused ballots out of a total of 43 million votes, throwing further doubt on the legitimacy of the results. More disconcertingly, there may have been some districts where turnout was higher than 100% of eligible voters.Despite this, Ahmadinejad had won just 1% less of the vote in 2005 as he did in 2009, and the results of the 2005 election have never been called into question.
No, he only speaks Farsi, the language of Iran. However He is familiar with some words and phrases in Arabic, as most Iranians are.
Iranian people decide through a direct election.
Ahmadinejad has said numerous things about Israel, none of them pleasant and many of them are considered incitements to violence. His most famous statement is "Israel will be wiped off the map." Most Iranian Government Officials and Iranian-sympathizers note that it is in the passive voice, and claim that it is a historical statement. Those who oppose the Iranian State say that this along with shouts of "Death to Israel", "Israel is the Little Satan", etc. and direct monetary and military arms support to Hezbollah and Hamas show a direct intent to be part of the "wiping Israel off the map". They further claim that the passive sentence structure is to obfuscate this intent. Ahmadinejad also does not usually refer to Israel by name, instead considering it the "Zionist entity", the "Zionist Occupier", the "Jewish Murderers", etc.
He regards the Iranian president (Mahmoud Ahmadinejad) and the current government of Iran as a potential threat and does not want to see Iran develop nuclear weapons. But as with all presidents before him, he has nothing personal against the Iranian people. It is the theocratic government of Iran, with its support for terrorism, that President Obama is concerned about; he does not trust their intentions.
The official language of the Parthian Empire was Parthian, which is a Middle-Iranian Language (whereas Farsi is a Modern-Iranian Language). Aramaic was also commonly spoken as a vernacular in the western part of the Empire.