Ruler · 1956 – present

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Born 1956, living; head of state, engineer, politician. President of Iran (Iran), 2005 – 2013.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the reign.

Lived: since 1956; living
In office: 8 years; one reign
Lines: 1; Iran
Left it: ending not on record; nothing on record

President of Iran

Iran · the 7th of 12 dated reigns · 1979 – 2026

3 before

Ali Khamenei1981 – 1989

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani1989 – 1997

Mohammad Khatami1997 – 2005

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad2005 – 2013

Hassan Rouhani2013 – 2021

Ebrahim Raisi2021 – 2024

Mohammad Mokhber2024

2 after

killed, executed or dead in battledied in officeleft alive by a regular roadstill in officeending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 2005 – 2013 · 8 years · came to it aged 49

Came to it: elected
Left it: ending not on recordnothing on record: no death date to read the end against

Shortly after Ahmadinejad was elected president, some Western media outlets published claims that he was among the students who stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran, sparking the Iran hostage crisis.

Open in the atlas

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the atlas: the article, every line they sat in, and the map in their years.
Analyse the succession of Iran: every reign, how each ended, and the numbers over them.
States of Middle East and North Africa, and every state with a page.

Wikidata Q34448 (CC0) · the reigns from Wikidata's P39 terms, the rulers' own articles read by grammar (sentences quoted above, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Kokkonen & Sundell where they code the line · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.