{"id":3616,"date":"2015-02-01T22:18:27","date_gmt":"2015-02-01T22:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=3616"},"modified":"2015-02-01T22:18:27","modified_gmt":"2015-02-01T22:18:27","slug":"ahmadinejad-launches-website-ahead-of-iran-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/ahmadinejad-launches-website-ahead-of-iran-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahmadinejad launches website ahead of Iran polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Ahmadi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3617\" src=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Ahmadi.jpg\" alt=\"Ahmadi\" width=\"391\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Ahmadi.jpg 391w, https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Ahmadi-300x166.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 391px) 100vw, 391px\" \/><\/a>Iran\u2019s hardline former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday launched his official website, in a possible return to the political scene a year before legislative elections.<br \/>\nThe site Ahmadinejad.ir, showing Ahmadinejad with a big smile, was launched at the same time as a Google+ page for the two-time former president and an account on Instagram.<br \/>\nThe hardline conservative has stayed out of the public eye since his mandate ended in June 2013 and the election of Hassan Rowhani, his moderate successor as president of the Islamic republic.<br \/>\nLast month, Mohammad Reza Rahimi, Iran\u2019s first vice president under Ahmadinejad, was sentenced to five years in prison, state media said.<br \/>\nThe supreme court\u2019s verdict came after a long-running trial on what Iranian media said were corruption charges.<br \/>\nAhmadinejad has said the charges against Rahimi stemmed from before the time he was named vice president.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/ahmadinejad-launches-website-ahead-of-iran-polls\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran\u2019s hardline former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday launched his official website, in a possible return to the political scene a year before legislative elections. The site Ahmadinejad.ir, showing Ahmadinejad with a big smile, was launched at the same time as a Google+ page for the two-time former president and an account on Instagram. The &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3616"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3618,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3616\/revisions\/3618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}