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...“The election’s message is that the dissident faction is much bigger than Raisi’s supporters,” said Hossein Yazdi, a reformist activist....
...The 2005 election of hardline president Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad led to a further deterioration of relations with the west....
...The 2009 protests that erupted after the hardline Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad won a disputed election were confined largely to Tehran with disgruntled middle-class Iranians at the forefront....
...About 100 people died in the demonstrations and opposition leaders, Mir-Hossein Moussavi and Mehdi Karoubi, remain under house arrest....
...Ahead of the performance of A Comedy Like a Murder, a satire by Hossein Kiani which has drawn packed crowds since it opened two months ago, Milad, a 23-year-old postgraduate student, says: “I watch at least...
...Hossein Akhani, an environmental activist and professor at Tehran University, credits the Rouhani government with putting environmental issues at the heart of its policymaking, as well as the increasing...
...The surprise election as president of reformist Mr Khatami in 1997, the support for former prime minister and opposition leader Mir-Hossein Moussavi in the 2009 presidential elections and the victory of...
...Iranian authors who have received a reprieve include Hossein Sanapour, Natasha Amiri and Reza Baraheni....
...Mr Pahlevan is one of a generation of young, unknown businessmen who were rapidly promoted with the support of senior authorities under the previous government of Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad (2005-2013)....
...“Iran has never seen corruption so massive which covers so many layers [of the society and the regime] and so deep in terms of the amounts of money misused,” says Hossein Raghfar, an economist....
...In fact, Tehran has not left the table since the start of talks in 2003, even under Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad....
...Iranian opposition hopes for the quick release of jailed reformist leaders have been dashed after the daughters of Mir-Hossein Moussavi claimed they were beaten when they refused to strip for security checks...
...Supporters of the opposition Green Movement voted for him in the hope that he could help release opposition leaders Mir-Hossein Moussavi and Mehdi Karroubi, as indicated during his election campaign....
...“He paid a huge price for unconditionally supporting Ahmadi-Nejad, who eventually turned against him, which is why he is not going to repeat that mistake.”...
...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...
...“He has not done anything so far while prices keep going up,” says Hossein, a street vendor in Darband, northern Tehran....
...Mr Rouhani is finding it difficult to roll back the policies he inherited from his predecessor, president Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad, without provoking public opinion....
...My host is Hossein Shariatmadari, the much-feared editor and commentator at Kayhan, mouthpiece of Iran’s Islamic fundamentalists....
...The detentions came after some opposition Green Movement supporters joined Mr Rohani’s campaign and chanted slogans in support of Mir-Hossein Moussavi, the jailed opposition leader....
...He is also struggling to find a new generation of journalists and columnists after eight years of repression under former president Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad....
...Tehran’s main streets and squares echoed with the names of opposition leaders, Mir-Hossein Moussavi and Mehdi Karroubi, who ran for president in 2009 but were put under house arrest after their charges of...
...At the same time, opposition leaders Mir-Hossein Moussavi and Mehdi Karroubi, key figures in anti-regime street protests after the disputed 2009 presidential election, remain under house arrest....
...The immediate reason for the revolt is a move by the government of Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad to increase taxes on the bazaaris as part of an attempt to plug the gap left by Iran’s falling oil revenues....
...The Khatami-Rafsanjani alliance was critical in pushing forward the candidacy of Mir-Hossein Moussavi in the 2009 presidential poll....
...Hossein Raghfar, a university professor of economics, said the subsidies plan had disproportionately affected the middle class, many of whom have fallen below the poverty line....
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