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💡 Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was born on 28 October 1956 in Aradan, Iran, the son of a poor family, and trained as an engineer and teacher before entering politics. He served as mayor of Tehran from 2003 to 2005 and then as president of Iran from 2005 to 2013, becoming a leading figure in the conservative Alliance of Builders of Islamic Iran. He was ideologically shaped by thinkers including Navvab Safavi, Jalal Al-e-Ahmad and Ahmad Fardid.