aug 3, 2005 - Ahmadinejad Elected President
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Iranians at the time only knew Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as a secular conservative. His campaign appealed to a large rural constituency and to the religious and military elite. Americans who were held hostage in 1979 and 1980 recognized him as one of their captors.
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