Iran’s previous president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stays a member of the effective Efficiency Discernment Council since June 13, 2024, contrary to posts that wrongly depicted him living a peaceful life as a shepherd after his time in workplace. The posts misrepresented a photo that formerly appeared in a paper report about Ahmadinejad taking pleasure in a walk on his 60th birthday.
“An enjoyed famous guy! The previous two-term president of Iran is presently offering as a shepherd,” checked out a Bengali-language Facebook post that shared the picture on Might 24, 2024.
“He was a two-term president for among the world’s wealthiest and most effective nations. At present, he is offering as a shepherd. He even contributed the pension cash he got as previous president.”
The Facebook post brought in more than 800 shares and a flurry of remarks applauding Ahmadinejad for his supposed way of life modification.
The picture flowed in comparable Facebook posts here and here following the death of Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash on Might 19, 2024.
Previous hardline president Ahmadinejad, who served from 2005 to 2013, was left out from going into the governmental race to change him.
Birthday walk
A reverse image search on Google discovered a larger crop of the picture in a 2016 post which stated it revealed Ahmadinejad taking pleasure in a walk on his 60th birthday.
According to the report by Iranian paper Qudsonline, the previous leader checked out the town of Kandlos in Iran’s Mazandaran province on October 28, 2016 and explored the heights with Dr. Abdolreza Sheikhul-Islami, among his previous ministers (archived link).
A reporter at the Persian-language news channel Iran International Pooja Jahandar likewise published the picture on social networks website X on October 29, 2016 (archived link).
He likewise stated it revealed Ahmadinejad strolling in Kandlos.
While Ahmadinejad is understood for his modest way of life, he has actually not retired from public life following his time in workplace.
He is noted as a member of Iran’s Efficiency Discernment Council, an effective body selected by the nation’s Supreme Leader with supervisory powers over all branches of the federal government (archived link).
Ahmadinejad is likewise a teacher at the Iran University of Science and Innovation’s School of Civil Engineering.