Former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Returns to Iran’s Political Scene

Former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Returns to Iran’s Political Scene

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A familiar face reappeared on Iran’s political scene before a cheering crowd in a mosque in a working-class part of Tehran over the weekend: firebrand former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

 

“Iran is stronger today than ever because it has kept on the path of the revolution, the imperialists will never dominate this country again,” Ahmadinejad declared in his first major public appearance since ceding power to centrist President Hassan Rouhani in August 2013.

 

The speech came at crucial time for Ahmadinejad’s successor amid make-or-break negotiations with the Islamic republic over its disputed nuclear program and just ahead of Wednesday’s 36th anniversary of the Iranian Revolution that ousted the U.S.-backed Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.

 

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