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...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...
...German foreign minister Annalena Baerbock phoned her Iranian counterpart Hossein Amirabdollahian on Thursday to discuss the rapidly worsening security situation....
...The radical-right cohort includes television host Amir-Hossein Sabeti, a political neophyte elected to parliament in this month’s low-turnout election....
...Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Iran would make Israel “regret having committed this crime and others”....
...Ali Bagheri Kani, Iran’s deputy foreign minister, said on state television that the timing of Iran’s response to any Israeli retaliatory action “will be measured not in days or hours, but in seconds”....
...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?...
...Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has vowed to respond, saying “Israel would regret its crimes”....
...Hossein Shariatmadari, an influential Iranian journalist, demanded “reprisal attacks against Zionist embassies and consulates”, which he said was the “legitimate right of Iran”....
...The guards identified the military advisers killed as Hojjatollah Omidvar, Ali Aqazadeh, Hossein Mohammadi, Saeed Karimi and Mohammad Amin Samadi Iranian forces have been active in Syria since the Islamic...
...“Iran has no intention to enter into this war,” said Mohammad-Ali Abtahi, a former reformist Iranian vice-president....
...Over the past two years, almost 10,000 doctors had applied for the good-standing certificates that destination countries require from foreign clinicians, according to Hossein-Ali Shahriari, head of the Iranian...
...Former prime minister turned regime critic Mir-Hossein Moussavi, who has been under house arrest for more than a decade, said in a statement this month that he no longer had faith in any constitutional reforms...
...Mohammad Ali Abtahi, a former reformist vice-president, said the Guards “wanted to use art to achieve their goals”....
...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...
...Last month, Rahim Safavi, a military adviser to Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said that the republic was “not only behind in the media warfare . . . but we have failed” in it....
...Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has accused the US and Israel of masterminding anti-regime protests prompted by the death in police custody of a young woman arrested for allegedly violating...
...Officials from the so-called E3 — France, Germany and the UK — also met Ali Bagheri Kani, Iran’s nuclear negotiator, in Oslo in March....
...Shekari “confessed” that a man called Ali had promised to pay him money for attacking security forces, according to local media reports....
...Ali Vaez, Iran project director at the Crisis Group think-tank, said there was “no other option available, because support for the JCPOA, even among Democrats, is now questionable”....
...Celebrities have encouraged street protests, said Iran’s judiciary chief Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei, saying that “those who have become famous with the support of this system now echo the enemy’s voice”...
...Ali Larijani, another prominent conservative, questions the focus on the hijab....
...Ali, a 40-year-old engineer who did not want his real name and current occupation published, fears more executions are on the way....
...“It’s definitely one step forward, one step backwards,” said Ali Vaez, Iran analyst at the International Crisis Group think-tank....
...Hossein Amirabdollahian, Iran’s foreign minister, said he would respond to the EU’s draft agreement late on Monday and said the foreign ministries of Iran, the US, UK, France, Germany and Russia — initial...
...The guards’ top commander, Brigadier General Hossein Salami said last month at the ceremony to introduce the new intelligence chief that this “war of intelligence has today turned into the most consistent...
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