Iran's Ahmadinejad looks to outsider options for race for presidency

Thursday, May 23, 2013

TEHRAN, Iran -- By now, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is well-accustomed to enduring blows from Iran's ruling clerics as his reputation fell from favored son to political outcast. But their intended parting shot -- barring his chief aid from the presidential race -- may be just the opening act in Ahmadinejad's reinvention as a self-styled opposition force.

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