File picture dated February 5, 2007 shows Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (L) walking with his close adviser Mojtaba Samareh Hashemi (R) to welcome Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf in Tehran. Hashemi, a top advisor to hardline Ahmadinejad has resigned to join his campaign for the June presidential election, the state news agency IRNA reported on April 15, 2009.