Presidential elections were held in Iran on 19 May 2017, the twelfth such elections in Iran. Local elections were held simultaneously.
Image: Raisi at Urumia 04 (cropped)
Former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who endorsed his protégé, and former vice president Hamid Baghaei, registered as a candidate along with him.
Third Iranian debate, 2017 election
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is an Iranian principlist and nationalist politician who served as the sixth president of Iran from 2005 to 2013. He is currently a member of the Expediency Discernment Council. He was known for his hardline views and nuclearisation of Iran. He was also the main political leader of the Alliance of Builders of Islamic Iran, a coalition of conservative political groups in the country, and served as mayor of Tehran from 2003 to 2005, reversing many of his predecessor's reforms.
Ahmadinejad at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in 2012
Ahmadinejad speaking at Columbia University, September 2007
Participants of the second Caspian Summit in October 2007. From left to right: President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliev, President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbaev, President of Russia Vladimir Putin and President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.