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...That reflects the realisation that the weak PA, which is led by President Mahmoud Abbas, 88, and is unpopular among many Palestinians, lacks the credibility to move into Gaza....
...Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has appointed economist Mohammad Mustafa the new prime minister of the Palestinian Authority, according to Wafa, the state-run news agency....
...President Mahmoud Abbas, who leads the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority, accepted Shtayyeh’s resignation on Monday....
...Shtayyeh on Monday offered his resignation in a letter to President Mahmoud Abbas, who leads the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority....
...Mahmoud Vaezi, a senior politician close to the former president, said the hardliners had “been putting the blame for all the Iran’s shortcomings on Rouhani’s administration, even while they’ve been in power...
...The international community, led by the US, has called on President Mahmoud Abbas, who leads the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority, to accept the resignation....
...“When [Palestinian prime minister] Mohammad Shtayyeh came here I told him, ‘Either protect us, or give us a way to protect ourselves’,” he says....
...A previous failed attempt on Rushdie’s life in 1989 was believed to have been planned by a member of Hizbollah, known as Mustafa Mahmoud Mazeh....
...“After our security situation improved, business has kept getting better and better,” said Bakr Mahmoud, 33, gluing a screen cover on to a customer’s mobile at his busy phone shop....
...Fatah, the main Palestinian faction in the West Bank and the party of President Mahmoud Abbas, was largely silent throughout....
...In 2009 he publicly opposed the controversial re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad, which he said was the result of “extensive fraud” that rendered the poll “meaningless”....
...The 2005 election of hardline president Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad led to a further deterioration of relations with the west....
...Analysts add that he will probably be less overtly radical than Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad, Iran’s last hardline president....
...Unrest in the West Bank could worsen significantly, an aide to the Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh told the FT, after nearly 80 demonstrations on Friday....
...There’s a new generation that doesn’t believe in us any more,” says Mohammad Ali Abtahi, a reformist former vice-president....
...In 2009, the Green Movement took to the streets to contest the re-election of another hardliner, President Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad, and was suppressed....
...“The bias of the Trump administration towards the most extreme in Israel blinds it from seeing the basic principles of international law and consensus,” said Mohammad Shtayyeh, the Palestinian prime minister...
...“The Gando series badly treats a foreign ministry which is currently at the forefront of war against the enemy as it does the intelligence ministry,” Mahmoud Vaezi, Iran’s president’s chief of staff, said...
...Mohammad-Javad Azari Jahromi, telecoms minister, said on Instagram: “Do not sit down brother. Stand up dear Javad! People are worried.”...
...“Without us knowing we divided the city,” says Mohammad al Musali, whose al Ghad radio station broadcast into Isis-held Mosul.“Before 2014 we never called it east and west....
...Reformists lost the presidential election to Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad, and hardliners boasted of big nuclear and regional achievements....
...Iran’s programme June 2005 Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad becomes president after promising a return to the revolution’s ideals and an accelerated nuclear plan June 2009 Protests over the allegedly fraudulent...
...But Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad, the former firebrand president, has turned into “the ally of the Satan,” in the words of one hardliner, as he has become an increasingly disruptive force embarrassing those who...
...Mossad has been accused of other past killings of Palestinians overseas, including the murder of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in a hotel in Dubai in 2010....
...The hardline populist Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad, Mr Rouhani’s predecessor, had one female minister during his second term — the only woman to hold such a post since the 1979 Islamic revolution....
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