After the election of Ahmadinejad, Meshkini spoke at a Friday prayer in Ardebil saying: " As the Supreme Leader of The Assembly of Experts of the Islamic Republic of Iran and South Azerbaijan, it gives me great pleasure to announce that Dr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is our new President.

In June 2010, he spoke out against Iranian President Ahmadinejad for his alleged laxness on compulsory hijab in Iran.

In 2007, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was one of those invited to speak on campus.

During his speech, Ahmadinejad criticized Israel's policies towards the Palestinians ; called for research on the historical accuracy of the Holocaust ; raised questions as to who initiated the 9 / 11 attacks ; defended Iran's nuclear power program, criticizing the UN's policy of sanctions on his country ; and attacked U. S. foreign policy in the Middle East.

Iran's tenth presidential election was held on 12 June 2009, with incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad running against three challengers.

Meanwhile many OIC member states, as well as Russia, China, India, and Brazil, have congratulated Ahmadinejad on his victory.

The inauguration of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was held on 5 August in Tehran amid protests held outside the Parliament.

Calmy-Rey was widely criticised for putting on a headscarf to meet Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on 19 March 2008.

When the 2009 Presidential election was announced, the popular former president, Mohammad Khatami, would not discuss his plans to run against Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as the Council may disqualify the Muslim cleric as it has other reformist candidates on the grounds that they were not dedicated enough to Islamic values.

Asgharzadeh later said there were five students at the first meeting, two of whom ( including current Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad — although this claim has been denied by the Iranian government — the Iranian opposition as well as a CIA investigation on the matter ) wanted to target the Soviet embassy because the USSR was " a Marxist and anti-God regime ".

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with violating the genocide convention of the United Nations Charter based on statements that he has made.

" Speaking on a visit to Malaysia on the first day of the tests, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad dismissed the possibility of an attack by the US or Israel as a " joke.

In August 2009, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad commented in a live broadcast on the state radio on rape and torture in the Iranian prisons and said ; " In some detention centers inappropriate measures have taken place for which the enemy was again responsible.

Following an interview with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on German public television in which he repeatedly called Israel " an artificial state " that had been built on the " lie of the Holocaust ", Knobloch called on the German government to publicly condemn the Iranian leader's statements and to isolate Iran diplomatically.

In a 2010 resolution on Iran, the WJC expressed support for international condemnation of current Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ’ s repeated calls for the abolition of the State of Israel and his statements questioning the Holocaust.

According to a US panel, attacks on Bahá ' ís in Iran have increased since Mahmoud Ahmadinejad became president as well as Sunni Muslims.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad granted Robert Faurisson an award for " courage " in Tehran on 2 February 2012.

In August 2009, BBC News reported that Ahmad Vahidi had become Iran's defense minister-designate under the 2009 Mahmoud Ahmadinejad administration, and is on Interpol's wanted list over the 1994 AMIA bombing.

The American and Israeli delegations walked out, while Ahmadinejad launched " a series of startling attacks on Israel and Jews in general, blaming them for all the world ’ s ills ".

Acceptance of Larijani's resignation from the secretary position was announced on October 20, 2007 by Gholamhossein Elham, the Iranian government's spokesman, mentioning that his previous resignations were turned down by President Ahmadinejad.

Further to the WJC ’ s and other international organizations ’ calls, representatives of many Western countries either did not show up or walked out of the conference chamber when Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attacked Israel in his speech to the Durban Review Conference in Geneva in April 2009 and to the United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York in September 2009.

On September 23, 2008 Afshin-Jam organized " Ahmadinejad's Wall of Shame " rally at Dag Hammarskjöld park across the United Nations in New York as Ahmadinejad was addressing the General Assembly.

Bollinger received much criticism in September 2007, when Columbia invited Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak at its campus on September 24, 2007.

In September 2011, Lally Weymouth traveled to Tehran, where she was granted an exclusive interview with President Ahmadinejad in advance of his trip to the United States to attend the United Nations General Assembly.

On September 24, 2007, while speaking at Columbia University, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said, in answer to the question " Iranian women are now denied basic human rights and your government has imposed draconian punishments including execution on Iranian citizens who are homosexuals.

The five ministers since the founding of the ministry, have been Mohammad Reyshahri ( under Prime Minister Mir-Hossein Mousavi ), Ali Fallahian ( under President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani ), Ghorbanali Dorri-Najafabadi ( under President Mohammad Khatami, resigned after a year ), Ali Younessi ( under President Khatami, until August 24, 2005 ), Gholam Hossein Mohseni-Ejehei ( under President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, from August 24, 2005 to August 24, 2009 ) and Heyder Moslehi ( under President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, from August 29, 2009 )

As neither gathered a majority of the vote, a run-off election was held on June 24, 2005, and won by Ahmadinejad.

He was the Minister of Economy and Finance Affairs of Iran in cabinet of the President Mohammad Khatami, replaced by Davoud Danesh-Jafari on August 24, 2005 in the cabinet of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Iranian president Ahmadinejad also attended the inauguration of President Correa in January 2007.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, during his 2007 speech at Columbia University, asserted that there were no gay people in Iran.

Larijani was the Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council from August 15, 2005 to October 20, 2007, appointed to the position by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,

On January 26, 2007, Yashayaei's letter to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad concerning his Holocaust denial comments brought about worldwide media attention.

In 2007, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, speaking to Columbia University, said ( through a translator ) that " In Iran, we don't have homosexuals ", though a spokesperson later stated that his comments were misunderstood.

Image: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at Columbia 8 by David Shankbone. jpg | This gate at Columbia University was closed to prevent entry of protesters

A number of local and national politicians, including presidential hopefuls John McCain, Fred Thompson, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton, denounced Columbia for hosting Ahmadinejad.

Additionally, the Wall Street Journal accused him of hypocrisy for allowing Ahmadinejad to address the university in the name of academic freedom and freedom of expression, but citing those same values in 2005 as justifications not to readmit an ROTC program to Columbia in light of the military's " don't ask, don't tell " policy toward gays.

President Ahmadinejad, the only major leader to attend the conference, said Jewish migrants from Europe and the United States had been sent to the Middle East after World War II " in order to establish a racist government in the occupied Palestine ".

Ahmadinejad has " no business " attending the London Olympic Games this summer, the Jewish Chronicle quoted a World Jewish Congress spokesman as saying.

In the May 2006 edition of the Weekly Standard, McGavick made the argument that Iran should be banned from the FIFA World Cup due to its nuclear weapons research program and statements by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that deny the truthfulness of the holocaust ( which is a criminal offense in the 2006 World Cup host country, Germany ).

* 2005 – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad becomes President of Iran.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called relations " firm and progressive " over the past three decades.

* 2006 – The International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust is opened in Tehran, Iran by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ; Nations such as Israel and the United States express concern.

Relations appear to have improved since March 2008, when Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made a two-day visit to Iraq.

Khalid Meshaal, the leader of Hamas, President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, and President Ahmadinejad of Iran urged all Arab states with remaining ties to Israel to cut them.

The conference showed the rising Arab support for Hamas over Fatah as well as the influence of anti-Israeli leaders like al-Assad of Syria and Ahmadinejad of Iran.

Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Senegalese counterpart Abdoulaye Wade had a joint press conference along with a close meeting in Feb 2008 in the city of Mashhad, both side pledged to expand the bilateral ties in the fields of economy, tourism and politics in addition to increase the efforts for empowering the OIC.

" In the same speech, Peres compared Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his call to " wipe Israel off the map " to the genocidal threats to European Jewry made by Adolf Hitler in the years prior to the Holocaust.

President Ahmadinejad suggested that 5 million residents should migrate out of Tehran.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was the first Iranian president to visit Iraq since Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution.

Relations between Iran and Bolivia were strengthened during the presidencies of Evo Morales and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

During a visit, together with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, he said there was a need to " strengthen the resistance front formed by independent and freedom-seeking nations to fight against imperialism and global hegemony.

" Comments made by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad were perceived by Israel as threat of destruction.

On the opening day of the conference, France said that Europeans would walk out if Ahmadinejad made any antisemitic remarks.

On March 2009, Javad Shamaqdari, cultural adviser to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, demanded an apology from a delegation of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences actors and producers visiting Iran for what he characterized as negative and unfair portrayals of the Islamic republic in The Wrestler and other Hollywood films.

He was replaced by Manouchehr Mottaki, as appointed by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

The decision provoked strong criticism from Mahmoud Ahmadinejad while Iranian officials alleged that the actions of the Bahraini match delegate had been politically motivated.

Christian apologist Michael R. Licona compared Doherty's views to the Holocaust denial of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: " Doherty & Associates are baffled that all but a few naïve onlookers pass them by quickly, wagging their heads and rolling their eyes.