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Article: PRESIDENT ON A POPULIST COURSE; AHMADINEJAD, A BLACKSMITH'S SON, WON IRANIAN ELECTION BY RUNNING AGAINST RULING ELITE.(News)
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- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Article date:
- June 11, 2006
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Byline: Iason Athanasiadis Newhouse News Service
Tehran, Iran
It is 1977 in the Iranian city of Shiraz. Four young men arrange themselves by height and lean on a wall to pose for a photo. Two of them sport American-style T-shirts and three are wearing flared jeans - the uniform of the '70s fashion-conscious.
But the shortest man sticks out for his lack of style and conformity. Wearing a nondescript shirt tucked into his trousers, the man who is now Iran's president cuts a plain figure in one of the earliest photos of him to enter the public domain.
"We headed down to Shiraz and Esfahan for six days in my car," recalled Hassan ...