Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. misidentified the president of Iran while speaking at a campaign rally in Aurora, Colo. Kennedy mentioned the need to speak with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran’s sixth president, while the country’s eighth president, Ebrahim Raisi, died in a helicopter crash earlier that day.
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