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...Other ascending figures from the cohort include Hamid Rasaee, 55, a hardline cleric elected in Tehran....
...Hamid, a 22-year-old salesperson in Tehran, who did not vote, said: “What is the point of voting when I know my vote wouldn’t change anything?”...
...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...
...He said president Ebrahim Raisi had asked Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to allow his government to tap the country’s sovereign wealth fund....
...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”....
...“The reason is they all follow one leader, Ayatollah [Ali] Khamenei.”...
...“The current situation of low petrol prices is not sustainable, but the government does not have the political courage to increase prices,” said Hamid Hosseini, a petrochemicals trader....
...[and] the supreme leader pardoned them,” hardline politician Hamid-Reza Taraghi said of the protesters and the decision to free them....
...In the 19th century, a letter to Sultan Abdul Hamid II lamented that the hammam’s tiles had been removed and sold to a French antique dealer, Ludovic Lupti....
...Although no Iranian president visited Damascus during the war, Assad has been to Iran twice since 2011 to meet Ayatollah Ali Khamenei....
...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...
...“The complexity of the demands on an asset manager are clearly increasing,” said Ali Dibadj, chief executive of Janus Henderson....
...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....
...Nonetheless, the protests serve as a warning to hardliners who are preparing the country for the eventual successor of Iran’s 83-year-old supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei....
...Brigadier General Hamid Vahedi, commander-in-chief of Iran’s air force, confirmed last month that the country was seeking to buy Sukhoi jets from Russia....
...Khodr Ali Taher The owner of Syria’s biggest retail phone and IT operator, EmmaTel....
...She smiles as she recalls the beginnings of her friendship with the novelist Mohsin Hamid. “Our first books came out near the same time....
...Iran’s nuclear negotiator, Ali Bagheri Kani, left Vienna for Tehran on Friday....
...It has excluded women and many other ethnic communities,” said Ali Yawar Adili, country director of the Afghanistan Analysts Network....
...Other political leaders, including Hamid Karzai, the former Afghan president, are holding talks with senior Taliban officials to form a power-sharing government....
...Raisi, a 60-year-old veteran of hardline politics and mooted as a successor to the supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, secured victory in June on the lowest turnout in any presidential election since...
...“Whether Zarif or a figure more senior than him runs or not, I’m not going to vote,” said Hamid, a 40-year-old engineer....
...Mashhad now has the most private music studios in the country, said Ali Alavi, the editor of Khorasan daily newspaper, a conservative outlet in Mashhad....
...But Hamid-Reza Taraghi, a hardline politician, said Iran had no choice....
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