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...With the fitfully gripping mystery Everybody Knows Iranian auteur Asghar Farhadi relocates to Spain with Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem and gets a little drunk on clichés....
...“Some protesters were disturbing citizens like forcing them get out of taxis and buses…or setting fire to one taxi,” said Ali-Asghar Naser-Bakht, deputy to Tehran’s governor....
...“Some protesters were disturbing citizens, forcing them [to] get out of taxis and buses . . . or setting fire to taxis,” said Ali-Asghar Naser-Bakht, Tehran’s deputy governor....
...The constitutional watchdog rules on candidates’ loyalty to the Islamic republic and to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader....
...Asghar Farhadi, director of The Salesman, the Iranian film that won best foreign film, boycotted the ceremony....
...Actress in a leading role: Emma Stone, La La Land Actress in a supporting role: Viola Davis, Fences Actor in a leading role: Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea Actor in a supporting role: Mahershala Ali...
...In a briefing for reporters, interior ministry official Ali Asghar Ahmadi outlined a similar proportion of votes, which if confirmed would give the pragmatist cleric a second term in which to pursue Iran's...
...Families and societies share many things in Iranian director Asghar Farhadi’s cinema: love, hate, tensions, obligations, betrayal, guilt . . ....
...Ali-Asghar Faani, the education ministry candidate, received 185 votes....
...His Tehran-based protagonist (Ali Mosaffa) arrives in France to finalise a divorce from French wife Marie (finely played by The Artist’s Bérénice Bejo)....
...The council uses a strict vetting procedure in which loyalty to the Islamic regime and its supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is the top criterion....
...Egypt. 12.Asghar Farhadi, filmmaker. Iran. 13.Niall Ferguson, historian, columnist. UK. 14.Francis Fukuyama, political scientist. US. 15.Ashraf Ghani, politician....
...Over the past year Mr Ahmadi-Nejad has increasingly faced criticism from conservative supporters of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader....
...The battle between Mr Ahmadi-Nejad and Ayatollah Khamenei became public last year, when the president sacked the intelligence minister, Heydar Moslehi, against the supreme leader’s will....
...These included accusations of disloyalty to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader, and questions on the faltering economy, unemployment and even the financing of the Tehran metro....
...The power struggle within Iran’s conservative regime emerged this year when Mr Ahmadi-Nejad defied an order from the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and sacked the intelligence minister, Heydar Moslehi...
...Ali-Asghar Yousefnejad, a member of the parliament’s industry and mines committee, says currency market fluctuations “inflicted an irreparable hit” on Iranian industry....
...Mohammad-Ali Jafari, the commander of the elite Revolutionary Guard, said on Monday that Iran was ready to counter “any threat and invasion”....
...The political infighting became public earlier this year when Mr Ahmadi-Nejad initially ignored an order from Ayatollah Khamenei not to sack Heydar Moslehi, the intelligence minister....
...The semi-official Isna news agency quoted Heidar Moslehi, Iran’s intelligence minister, as saying: “The assassinated student was not involved in nuclear projects and had no connection to the nuclear issue...
...The power struggle, which started earlier this year after the president defied a ruling by the top leader not to sack Heydar Moslehi, the minister of intelligence, is a rare open display of division in...
...The Islamic republic’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, earlier this week sent Heydar Moslehi, the intelligence chief, to Saudi Arabia for a rare meeting with its interior minister, Prince Nayef....
...“Such acts by foreign [intelligence] services usually have signs which are not seen in this case,” Mr Moslehi said....
...It comes against the backdrop of an intensifying power struggle between Mr Ahmadi-Nejad and his allies and conservatives supporting Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader....
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