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...Another member of the group is Ali-Akbar Raefipour, 39, a social media personality with a hardline following who established a new political front and electoral list to fight the election....
...It pays tribute to the master sarod player Ali Akbar Khan, with whom Bhattacharya studied as a young man, and something of his thoughtfulness can be discerned in Bhattacharya’s guitar playing....
...The record level of 1995 came under the centrist government of late president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, whose advocacy of an open-market approach hardliners see as the root cause of the current economic...
...Akbar Montajabi ran front page stories about anti-government protests that had rocked Iran for months without attracting the ire of the authorities. But that all changed when he wrote about lamb....
...Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, another great classical musician, proclaimed: “Kambakht, kabhi besura gaati hi nahi!” — loosely, “that woman never sings out of tune!”...
...Ali Akbar Mohtashamipur, who has died at the age of 74, was a central figure in Iran’s 1979 revolution and its aftermath....
...Ali Akbar Mehrabian, energy minister, has apologised to Isfahan farmers last week and promised a solution. The situation in Isfahan is extreme....
...Ali Akbar Velayati, eminence grise to Iran’s supreme leader, greeted Aoun’s triumph as a victory for Iran and Hizbollah. The geopolitical context is no less important....
...Mohammad Hashemi, a brother of late former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, is believed to be trying to mobilise reformists to back Hemmati....
...The late former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the great pragmatist of the revolution and arch-fixer at the heart of Iranian realpolitik for more than three decades, floated the idea of a leadership...
...Other highlights from the first quarter include Love Marriage (Virago, February), a new novel from Monica Ali, and Anne Tyler’s French Braid (Chatto & Windus, March)....
...There’s a new generation that doesn’t believe in us any more,” says Mohammad Ali Abtahi, a reformist former vice-president....
...Akbar Salehi was quoted as saying to local media....
...He was joined by the sarod virtuoso Ali Akbar Khan, the tabla player Alla Rakha and Kamala Chakravarty — the concert’s only female performer, bar backing singers — who played the tamboura....
...An evening raga on the sarod from Shankar’s friend and rival, Ali Akbar Khan, sets up two versions of “New Delhi” — the first by Cannonball Adderley with its composer, Victor Feldman, on vibes; then a limber...
...“I’m proud to say that we’ve made progress and today we have a team of 120 weavers,” says Ali....
...A quarter of a century after Ali Akbar, a 55-year-old construction worker, helped build a house for Mr Rouhani’s parents, the construction sector is in the doldrums. “I don’t know whose fault that is....
...Ali Akbar Salehi, one of Iran’s vice-presidents and head of the country’s atomic organisation, has said Iran would only ramp up uranium enrichment if the accord collapsed....
...“Russia is ready to invest $50bn in Iran’s oil and gas sectors,” Ali Akbar Velayati, a senior adviser to Iran’s supreme leader, said during a visit to Moscow that included a meeting with President Vladimir...
...Similarly, Ali Akbar Salehi, head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, expressed concern that Chinese developers were taking their time in redesigning the Arak heavy water reactor according to the terms...
...Khamenei replaces him as supreme leader June 1989 Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a pillar of the revolution who pushed for clerical rule, elected president promising a reconstruction plan....
...Ali Akbar Salehi, one of Iran’s vice-presidents and head of the country’s atomic organisation, told reporters that “the first step was taken and we have started ground operations today”....
...Ali Akbar Nategh-Nouri, a former parliament speaker, said the possibility of negotiations could be reviewed while Iran “should not reject it outright and be accused of violence and war mongering”....
...But when Bashar al-Assad made one of his few public appearances this week the company he chose was telling: Ali Akbar Velayati, the top adviser to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader....
...The theocratic regime, established in 1979 by conservative clerics, including Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani , is already under huge stress....
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