Ahmadinejad an elected leader:
``He is the elected leader,'' Robert Gibbs, the White House Press Secretary, told reporters at his daily press briefing when asked about the swearing in ceremony of Ahmadinijad as the President of Iran for the second term.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been sworn in as Iranian president as riot police broke up an opposition protest over an election that triggered the worst turmoil in the Islamic republic's history.