Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been elected Iran's sixth chief executive in the ninth presidential race on June 25, 2005 by winning 17 million votes against 10 million garnered by Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. The Interior Ministry gave Ahmadinejad 61.8 per cent of the vote over his moderate rival, Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani, who had 35.7 per cent. Born in Garmsar, southeast of Tehran, to a blacksmith's family, Ahmadinejad migrated with his family to ...