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...The radical-right cohort includes television host Amir-Hossein Sabeti, a political neophyte elected to parliament in this month’s low-turnout election....
...“If we vote, we’d give a legitimacy that this regime doesn’t deserve,” said Amir-Reza, a private sector employee. “And it will have no impact anyway, because hardliners aren’t giving up....
...The setting is the holy city of Mashhad, where each year millions of pilgrims visit the Imam Reza shrine. Here, though, Mashhad is unforgiving....
...Reza Baqir, governor of the central bank and a former IMF official, told the Financial Times that Pakistan was working to end the “boom and bust cycles” that had plagued its economy....
...For several months now, no visitors have been allowed at the shrine of Fatima Masoumeh, sister of Reza, one of the 12 Imams of Shia Islam....
...The country’s political leaders were informed of the mistake on Friday, said Amir Ali Hajizadeh, commander of the Revolutionary Guards’ air forces, who accepted responsibility for the mistake....
...“He was one of a handful of commanders in Khorasan province who shone during the war,” said one resident of Mashhad who joined the Imam Reza-21 battalion under Gen Ghaani during the war....
...The bazaar played a crucial role in the 1979 Islamic revolution when traders joined forces with the clergy to overthrow Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi....
...Mohammad Reza and I arrived in mid-afternoon, after our lunch with Amir. We left the car and marched into the hyper-arid sculpture park, set on climbing the highest ridge we could find....
...But later this year, Amir Reza Koohestani’s Hearing will become the first Iranian play to be selected for France’s prestigious Avignon theatre festival. The business in still financially fraught....
...A decade ago, Dance on Glasses, an intimate, autobiographical play about a couple’s break-up, sent Iranian director Amir Reza Koohestani on a four-year tour around the world....
...The youth are different from 10 years ago,” says Hamid-Reza Jalaipour, a professor of sociology at Tehran University....
...For several chapters, it almost seems like a blow-by-blow portrait of how Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi’s rule descended into the 1979 revolution....
...Amir Cyrus Razzaghi, head of Ara Enterprise, a private consulting group, said easing the sanctions could add $15bn to the economy this year....
...Meanwhile, performance artist Amir Mobed will present a new interactive piece in London....
...On the contrary, this election showed that their demands, concerns and hidden hopes are still there,” said Hamid-Reza Jalaeipour, a sociologist and reformist politician....
...Washington was a robust ally of the autocratic Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and an Anglo-American-led coup toppled Iran’s elected prime minister, Mohammad Mossadegh, in 1953 after he had sought to nationalise...
...… History by Tony Barber Nixon, Kissinger and the Shah: The United States and Iran in the Cold War, by Roham Alvandi, OUP, RRP£35.99/$55 Knowledge of the 1970s, when Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was one of...
...Gholam-Reza Kateb, an MP, told the agency that the minister also said oil sales had dropped by 40 per cent compared with the corresponding period last year and predicted a “considerable drop” in the next...
...… House of Debt: How They (and You) Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent it from Happening Again, by Atif Mian and Amir Sufi, University of Chicago Press, RRP£18/ $26 In this important...
...“The Stability Front follows the supreme leader’s guidelines and cannot have a crucial role in policies, but it can increase risks,” said Amir Mohebbian, an analyst close to the United Front....
...The scandal centres on a businessman, Mah-Afarid Khosravi, also known as Amir Mansour Khosravi....
...One player to catch the eye is Amir-Reza Behbodi, 13, from Rabbit Valley, who is among the country’s youngest players. His father is a polo coach....
...Yet Emir Reza Koohestani’s latest play – following successes such as Dance on Glasses and Amid the Clouds – is all and none of this at once....
...Amir, a 33-year-old researcher, says he and his friends will be marching and they have mapped out their plans, starting from the middle of a 10km route in eastern Tehran....
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