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Article: IRAN - Oct 26 - Officials Counter Ahmadi-Nejad Health Rumors.(Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad)
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- APS Diplomat Recorder
- Article date:
- November 1, 2008
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Pres Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad of Iran is suffering from exhaustion because of the strain of his job, the official news agency IRNA reported Oct 26 in an unusual disclosure about the health of the country's top elected leader. But the news agency quoted a political ally as saying Ahmadi-Nejad would make a full recovery. State television also quoted Ahmadi-Nejad himself as saying that he might be exhausted, but that it was nothing more serious. "Of course, we are also human beings, and sometimes we catch a cold", he was quoted as saying. The official news accounts apparently were meant to rebut rumors that Ahmadi-Nejad, who is in his early 50s, may be ill and not up to running ...