He said Israel should be erased from the map – and paid the price.
Hardliner Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was reportedly killed in the first round of Israeli airstrikes inside Iran.
Iranian media said Ahmadinejad was killed in a strike.
BREAKING: Former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad killed in strike, Iranian media says
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The irony is that, according to an Axios report, Ahmadinejad was under House arrest for taking part in a ‘Palace Coup’ attempt with Regime Reformists.
FORMER PRESIDENT AHMADINEJAD DIED IN YESTERDAY’S ATTACK ON IRAN pic.twitter.com/MVflxpJ9Bz
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The New York Post reported:
“Ahmadinejad served as Iran’s sixth president from 2005 to 2013, rising from relative obscurity as mayor of Tehran to defeat establishment figure Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani in a surprise 2005 runoff.
Critics at home and abroad described him as a confrontational ideologue whose economic management fueled inflation and whose rhetoric deepened Iran’s international isolation.”
Former President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and several of his close-associates and bodyguards were reportedly killed in a strike yesterday on Tehran by the Israeli Air Force. pic.twitter.com/8VetxUEAPA
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“During a 2005 conference titled ‘A World Without Zionism’, he quoted Iran’s founding leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, who had referred to Israel as “the occupying regime of Jerusalem” and a ‘disgraceful cancerous growth’ that ‘must be wiped off the map’.”
But the fog of war is thick: while reports of Ahmadinejad’s death have multiplied around the world, Iranian state media now says that these reports are unconfirmed.
Times of Israel reported:
“Some outlets cite the Iran Labor News Agency. However, the news site says explicitly that the reports ‘cannot be confirmed’.
‘One of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s close associates, in contact with ILNA, denied the news of the martyrdom of the president of the ninth and tenth governments without any additional information, saying: ‘The news of his martyrdom is false’, according to the outlet’.”
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