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...Others singled out by the super-revolutionaries have included Ali Larijani, a former speaker of parliament; Mohammad Reza Bahonar, a former senior lawmaker whose brother was assassinated while serving as...
...Less prominent hardline figures, who have risen to power in the past decade, scored a victory against old-guard conservatives, such as Mohammad-Reza Bahonar....
...Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Iran would make Israel “regret having committed this crime and others”....
...Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has vowed to respond, saying “Israel would regret its crimes”....
...The best book I’ve read in the past year is The Diary of a Gambler by Reza Shafahi....
...The decision to launch a direct attack on Israel marked a significant political gamble for supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has traditionally pursued a “strategic patience” policy in responding...
...Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has twice vowed to make Israel “regret” killing Mohammad Reza Zahedi, the commander of Iran’s Quds force in Syria and Lebanon, and six other military officials on Iranian...
...“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....
...Hamid-Reza Taraghi, a hardline Iranian politician, told the Financial Times that Tehran would be wary of Israel “trying to drag other parties into a regional war”....
...But for Reza, a local farmer heaving bags of the orange-red spice into the city’s bustling spice exchange, this year has been a disaster....
...It’s far from a smoking gun, but it’s enough, enough for me to ask Hossein, does he think that Assadi could have been connected to the murder of Mohamed Reza Kolahi, also known as Ali Motamed?...
...Queen Farah, the wife of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, also broke the mould in the decades before the 1979 revolution by pushing the boundaries of tradition....
...Paul VugtsAli Motamed was Mohamed Reza Kolahi Somadi and when he was 23 years old he placed a bomb which blew up 74 people of the Islamic Republican party in Iran....
...“The reason is they all follow one leader, Ayatollah [Ali] Khamenei.”...
...Mohammad-Reza Mir-Tajeddini, a member of parliament, told local media this week that fuel subsidies were now three times more than the country’s total development budget, but “nobody dares to speak” about...
...Pahlavi is the eldest son of the late Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who sought to modernise Iran over four decades as shah with the backing of the US....
...[and] the supreme leader pardoned them,” hardline politician Hamid-Reza Taraghi said of the protesters and the decision to free them....
...The regime’s key concern is ensuring a smooth succession to the 84-year-old supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, when the time comes....
...Director Ali Abbasi doesn’t insult the gravity of events by drawing out the matter of his identity....
...Ali Mohsen al-Allaq, the previous incumbent, was named as acting governor....
...Hundreds of thousands of conservatives took to the streets of Tehran and other big cities and towns on Saturday, carrying pictures of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader who has been the main target...
...“There have been discussions [on ballistic missiles], but so far they haven’t done it,” said Ali Vaez, Iran project director at the Crisis Group think-tank....
...But actor Reza Kianian said he did not agree with the boycott, insisting it was “never too late to have a dialogue in the country”....
...Ali Larijani, another prominent conservative, questions the focus on the hijab....
...“In the absence of established political parties, this young man announced what young protesters want,” said Hamid-Reza Jalaeipour, a sociologist....
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