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...I’m Miles Johnson, and from the Financial Times and Pushkin Industries this is Hot Money: The New Narcos. Episode 8: The Red Notebook....
...The 2005 election of hardline president Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad led to a further deterioration of relations with the west....
...I’m befuddled [about] what is the endgame,” says Jake Sullivan, a senior US official in the Obama administration....
...But to change it would have changed the whole fibre of Hossein Amini’s brilliant script. I called Hossein and the director, Mikael Hafstrom, and we couldn’t understand why they’d do that to us....
...Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad said he was “in love with all of humanity”. What about twice-married Morgan? “I wouldn’t say....
...“What is certain is that the jump in the value of shares was fake and a bubble,” said Mr Sadeghi, the prosecutor in Mashhad....
...“I’m very happy and proud as an Iranian that we have reached a peace agreement with the US,” Danial, a 16-year-old high school student, said echoing many people’s interpretation of the agreement primarily...
...With R&D costs rising slightly, to £63.1m from £62.3m last year, that pushed the company to a pretax loss of £22.6m – compared with forecasts for a £2.7m pre-tax profit....
...I’m no expert on electronic circuit-board testers, and I’d be surprised if this were a huge breakthrough....
...He would haunt shops on Canal Street and he’d get some lead or he’d get some rubber and he’d take it back to the studio and see what he could do with it....
...During Mr Ahmadi-Nejad’s eight-year tenure, the percentage of Iranian families living under the poverty line increased from 22 per cent to more than 40 per cent, according to Hossein Raghfar, a prominent...
...“I’m very optimistic that Rouhani will be successful,” he adds....
...According to some web sources today, it was because he had supported or campaigned for the opposition politician Mir-Hossein Moussavi....
...But does this make all post-1979 art inherently political, especially during the two-term tenure of Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad from 2005 to 2013?...
...“I’m not a diplomat. I’m a revolutionary and speak frankly and directly,” he said. “You [Americans] have pointed guns towards Iran, but at the same time you want to negotiate....
...It is clear that his Saudi extraction and life experiences are the DNA of his art, though he – rather naively – emphasises: “I’m not on one side. I’m a witness.”...
...Its exports had fallen from 2.4m b/d in early 2011 to just 0.8m b/d in August....
...“I think we should have done it sooner, maybe seven or eight years ago,” Mr Ahmadi-Nejad responded....
...“I’m very sceptical about this story because it looks very amateurish, this is not the type of thing that the Iranian government or the Quds Force has done in the past,” he said....
...“I’m glad to hear they are having problems with their centrifuge machines,” he told a conference in Washington, referring to the centrifuges used to enrich uranium....
...As one former ambassador to Iran puts it: “When members of my staff used to come into my office, I’d always look to see whether their shoes were dirty....
...“I’m not afraid to be one of the martyrs people have offered in the struggle for their just demands.”...
...President Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad said the demonstrations had been a “Zionist and American-ordered show”....
...Mr Yazdi had labelled Mr Ahmadi-Nejad’s government a “creeping coup d’etat” because of the power it has invested in the Revolutionary Guards military apparatus since he came to power in 2005....
...The results triggered surprisingly robust protests as many young supporters of Mir-Hossein Moussavi, the reform-minded candidate, began urging that their votes be counted....
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