Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran’s ex-president who said ‘Israel must be wiped off the map,’ killed in Israeli airstrikes

NY Post ^ | 03/01/2026 | Ariel Zilber

[DFG]

Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad — a polarizing hardliner who became the face of Tehran’s nuclear defiance and incendiary anti-Israel rhetoric — was reportedly killed in Israeli airstrikes during Saturday’s strikes inside Iran.

A report by the Israeli media outlet Ma’ariv stated that Ahmadinejad was under house arrest at the time and was killed in a targeted strike on his home.

Ahmadinejad served as Iran’s sixth president from 2005 to 2013, rising from relative obscurity as mayor of Tehran to defeat establishment figure Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani in a surprise 2005 runoff.

Critics at home and abroad described him as a confrontational ideologue whose economic management fueled inflation and whose rhetoric deepened Iran’s international isolation.

Ahmadinejad became especially notorious in the West for his rhetoric toward Israel and his comments about the Holocaust.

During a 2005 conference titled “A World Without Zionism,” he quoted Iran’s founding leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, who had referred to Israel as “the occupying regime of Jerusalem” and a “disgraceful cancerous growth” that “must be wiped off the map.”

His defenders later argued that translations of his remarks were disputed, while critics said the intent was unmistakably hostile.

In 2007, speaking at Columbia University in New York, Ahmadinejad declared that there were “no homosexuals in Iran,” prompting laughter from the audience and widespread ridicule.

[DFG]

I'm a nut job is dead.

[norcal joe]

I called him “I’m a dinner jacket.”
Nice to see he’s gone.

[ConservativeMind]

I did not know he was under semi-permanent house arrest, for saying the government was mismanaging the country and believing they were treating Iranians as if they were stupid.

[Texas Eagle]

Ahmadinejad became especially notorious in the West for his rhetoric toward Israel and his comments about the Holocaust.

You mean like demonicRATS?

[bankwalker]

I think he participated in taking our hostages when carter was president ...

[MtnClimber]

No tyrant deserves a natural death.

[metmom]

What goes around, comes around......

You cannot forever be threatening to destroy and kill others and expect them to sit back and let you.

[Freeleesy]

LOL

[Bigg Red]

I hope he is enjoying meeting his “prophet” in hell.

[DFG]

[Uncle Miltie]

Yay!

[Lizavetta]

Mahmoud I’m-a-dinner-jacket has assumed room temperature.

[delchiante]

That’s a 3rd degree burn on France and foreign enemy UK.

Well done..

[SunkenCiv]

A report by the Israeli media outlet Ma’ariv stated that Ahmadinejad was under house arrest at the time and was killed in a targeted strike on his home.

Gosh, that's just not fair. /rimshot

It's been rumored that he was one of the a-holes who kidnapped and held the US embassy hostages.

[donozark]

RUSH had a nickname for this little sawed-off pecker wood. Can’t recall it...

[rdcbn1]

This guy was an evil SOB who terrorized milions and killed wat too many people.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Good times!

[dfwgator]

Where is the classic “Nuke Me Now” pic of him?

[TexasFreeper2009]

all these Satan worshipers can meet up again in hell.

[ScaniaBoy]

Sorry, I don't know which picture you mean, but here something else to celebrate this day:

The Three Terrors