Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad received a bid of US$1 million for his1977 Peugeot 504 after the car was put on an international auction last week, state media reported.
Iran’s official IRNA news agency quoted Ahmad Esfandiari, the head of Iran’s Welfare Organisation, as saying the bid had come from an Arab country. He did not offer details.
Ahmadinejad launched a Web site last Saturday to invite international bids for his car, with the proceeds to fund a project to build 60,000 homes for the disabled and to needy women who are providing for their families.
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The Web site will accept bids for a period of one month, the report said.
Ahmadinejad has always cultivated an image as a “people’s president” and friend of the poor.
After his election to his first term as president in 2005, he was required by law to make an asset declaration and he listed a then 40-year-old 175m2 house in a lower-middle class part of east Tehran, the contents of two bank accounts and the ageing white Peugeot.
Following his controversial re-election last year, he vowed to put “housing, employment and economic reform” at the top of his agenda after house prices soared during his first term of office.
(AFP)
伊朗官方媒體上週報導,總統馬賀穆德‧阿瑪迪尼賈一九七七年份的寶獅(Peugeot)五零四於國際拍賣,喊價高達一百萬美元。
伊朗官方的伊朗通訊社,引述伊朗社會福利組織執行長阿赫馬德‧艾斯方迪亞里說,百萬元的喊價來自阿拉伯國家。但他並未說明細節。
阿瑪迪尼賈上週六發起一個網站替他的車召開國際標,目的是替殘障人士與撫養家庭的貧窮婦女搭建六萬棟房屋。
該報導指出,網站的投標期長達一個月。
阿瑪迪尼賈一向自許為「人民的總統」,與窮人的朋友。
二??五年首次當選總統後,他依法申報財產,並列舉德黑蘭東區中產階級一棟一百七十五平方公尺的四十年房屋,兩個銀行帳戶的存款,以及這台老舊白色寶獅汽車。
因房價在他首任任期內飆漲,在他去年具爭議的連任後,他宣示將「住宅、工作與經濟改革」列為首要的工作議程。
(法新社/翻譯:吳岱璟)
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