Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad, the 6th president of Iran, was born 28 October 1956 in
Aradan, in province of Seman of Iran.
Mr Ahmadinejad was also the main political leader of the Alliance of
Builders of Islamic Iran, a coalition of conservative political groups in Iran.
Having a
poor background of engineer and teacher he joined the Office for Strengthening
Unity after Islamic Revolution in Iran. Mr.
Ahmadinijad was appointed as provincial governor but was removed from this post
after the election of President Mohammad Khatami. He rejoined the profession of teaching.
Early
Life
His
father name was “Ahmad”, an ironworker, grocer, barber, blacksmith. Ahmad was a Shia Muslim and taught the
Quran. Mr. Ahmadinijad mother name was “Khanom”
a Sayyida family woman, to be considered
a very noble and pious family.
In
1976, Ahmadinejad participate in entrance contest of Iran National University. As per his biography he was ranked at 132nd
out of 400000 participants that year. He
was enrolled as an undergraduate student of Civil Technology in Iran University
of Science and Technology in Tehran. He
achieved his PhD in transportation engineering and planning from IUDT in
1997. In those days he was the Mayor of
Ardbil province located in the north-west of Iran.
Supporters
of Ahmadenejad consider him a Simple Man, who leads a simple kife. Being a president, he continue living in his
inherited house in Tehran with his family, even his security advisor insisted
that he should move. He uses old
carpets in his house. He is said to have
refused the VIP seat in the Presidential plane and has also replaced his plane
with a cargo plane. Being a president,
he held his first cabinet meeting in the Holy shrine of Imam Reza (A.S) at Mashhad, an act
considered as pious.
