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Born in Garmsar, the son of a blacksmith, Ahmadinejad's family moved to Tehran when he was 1 year old. He entered Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST) to study civil engineering in 1976. He continued his studies in the same university, entering the MSc program for civil engineering in 1986 and finally receiving his PhD in traffic and transportation engineering and planning.
In 1980, Ahmadinejad was the head representative of IUST to the student gatherings that took sessions with the presence of the Ayatollah Khomeini. In these sessions were created the foundations of the first Office for Strengthening Unity (daftar-e tahkim-e vahdat), the student organization behind seizure of the United States Embassy that led to the Iran hostage crisis. During the seizure of the embassy, Ahmadinejad suggested a simultaneous attempt against the Soviet Union Embassy, which was voted down.
Ahmadinejad was an obscure figure when he was appointed mayor of Tehran in the spring of 2003, and was not much better known when he ran for president of Iran two years later. He was elected president of Iran on June 24, 2005, in the second round of the presidential election.
He has a reputation for living a simple life and campaigned against corruption.
At the beginning of 2006, Iran broke IAEA seals at its Natanz nuclear research facility and by the end of the year it declared that it had succeeded in enriching uranium. Ahmadinejad is defying the West and leading his country to be a major power in the region and threaten US hegemony in the Middle East.
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