page_title: Foreign policy of the Mahmoud Ahmadinejad administration
section_title: Background
hierarchical_section_title: Foreign policy of the Mahmoud Ahmadinejad administration / Background
caption_attribution_description: English: TEHRAN. With the President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.Русский: ТЕГЕРАН. С Президентом Ирана Махмудом Ахмадинежадом.
context_page_description: The foreign policy of the Mahmoud Ahmadinejad administration was the policy initiatives towards other states by the former President of Iran, as different from past and also future of the Iranian foreign policy. Ahmadinejad's tenure as President came at a time of greater conflict, rhetorical or physical, than his predecessors. In following this there were various measures, external or internal, that led to his policy changes. This was primarily a division between relations with states of the western world and the rest of the world.
context_section_description: In a break with the old regime, the face of the Islamic Republic in the west was changed early in Ahmadinejad's administration via the return to Iran of "virtually the entire corps of ambassadors based in the West" — diplomats who were experienced but also quite reform-minded.
caption: Ahmadinejad with then president of Russia Vladimir Putin in Russia
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