IRAN. Aradan. Iranians talk about President Mahmoud AHMADINEJAD. The Cousin: Maassoumeh Saborjhian, in her courtyard, holds a portrait of the President at prayer over the tomb of Ayatollah Khomeyni. She lives in the President's birthplace, the village of Aradan, near Garmsar, on the edge of the salt desert. She says : "He was the kind of son any parent would like. He did not drink, he studied the Koran when he was very young and he often helped his father at the forge".