On the first day of the Iran war, the assassination of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei overshadowed news of a strike near the home of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's president from 2005 to 2013. Many who remembered his term in office'marked by Holocaust denial, atom-bomb fetishism, and shoving Islamic revolutionary ideology down the throats of a country already weary of it'celebrated his reported assassination. As president, he was the symbol of a smarmy kind of theocratic fascism. 'All my friends have got nuclear weapons'even Ahmadinejad,' Sacha Baron Cohen's character complained in the 2012 movie The Dictator. 'And he looks like a snitch on Miami Vice!' Among those who have followed Ahmadinejad's post-presidential career, however, his targeting was more of an enigma. Since leaving office, Ahmadinejad has harshly criticized the Iranian government, and as a result, Iran's Guardian Council has formally excluded him from running for president. For more than a decade, he has been known more as...
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