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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and presidential candidate casts his vote during the Iranian presidential elections on June 12, 2009 in Tehran, Iran. Iran said the ultra conservative and current President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad defeated conservative reformist candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi.
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