Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

The son of a grocer and barber in the village of Aradan, he studied civil engineering at the Iran University of Science and Technology, served in the war years, and rose through provincial governorships to the Tehran mayoralty, from which his populist presidential campaigns of 2005 and 2009 were launched. The English and Persian infoboxes both name Khatami as his predecessor and Hassan Rouhani as his successor. ^{1 2}

On the first day of the 2026 Iran war his house in Narmak, Tehran, was struck and three of his bodyguards were killed; he was originally reported killed in the strikes, but later reports contradicted this, and the English article treats him as living. The Urdu article, frozen at its revision of 1 March 2026, still dates him to 28 February 2026 — the early erroneous report, uncorrected in that edition — while the Arabic infobox leaves his death fields blank and Wikidata carries no death value. He is therefore recorded as living, and the false report is documented rather than silently dropped. ^{1 3 4 5}

His faith is recorded as unknown. No text in any edition names an affiliation for him personally: the English article's text calls his father "a religious Shia Muslim" — family background, which never attests the son. The Arabic infobox gives his religion as Islam (Twelver Shia) and Wikidata carries Shia Islam in general: one structured family, which does not meet the bar of two independent texts. His public advocacy of the Mahdi is political speech, not a school attestation, and the evidence is preserved here without a recorded value. ^{1 4 5}

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