TEHRAN • A top aide to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has set up a special body to oversee the spread of the distinctive and often controversial philosophy of the Iranian president, media reported yesterday. Ahmadinejad's chief of staff Abdol Reza Sheikh-ol Eslami has appointed members of a "council to define and guard over the thought and works of the president," according to Ham Mihan newspaper and the ISNA news agency. Since coming to power in 2005 on a platform of restoring revolutionary values, Ahmadinejad has carved out a reputation as a deeply ideological president whose comments have been criticised abroad and sometimes...