TEHRAN — Iran's hardline former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday registered his candidacy for the country's presidential election this month, state media reported.
TEHRAN — Iran's hardline former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday registered his candidacy for the country's presidential election this month, state media reported.The Islamic republic goes to the polls on June 28 to replace ultraconservative president Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash on May 19.
'I am confident that all the country's problems can be solved by making maximum use of national capacities,' he said after submitting his bid at the interior ministry on Sunday.In 2005, Ahmadinejad gained worldwide notoriety when he said Iran's arch-foe Israel was doomed to be 'wiped off the map' and also asserted that the Holocaust was a 'myth.
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