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...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...
...US secretary of state Antony Blinken told Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas that the US saw the PA as “playing a central role” in any post-Hamas government in Gaza, a US official said....
...Both were scions of a proud political family, with photographs of their meetings with Jordan’s King Abdullah and Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas in their living rooms....
...Instead, he has been largely ignored, unlike predecessors Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad and Hassan Rouhani, who faced the full wrath of demonstrators during previous bouts of unrest in 2009 and 2019 respectively....
...Raisi’s provincial trips are “painkillers” and “no real treatment”, said Mahmoud Ahmadi Bighash, a hardline member of parliament....
...Analysts add that he will probably be less overtly radical than Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad, Iran’s last hardline president....
...Shortly after Iran’s centrist president Hassan Rouhani was elected in 2013, the country’s football team qualified for the World Cup, a sign, many said, that the new leader had brought them good luck....
...President Hassan Rouhani, a centrist politician who gambled on agreeing the 2015 nuclear accord with world powers, will step down this summer after two terms in office....
...“Djibouti is located in a vital geostrategic region where all members of the international community have a vested interest,” said foreign minister Mahmoud Ali Youssouf....
...Raisi has said his government will continue talks with world powers to revive the 2015 nuclear deal, but he has already indicated he will take a tougher line....
...Zaher Hassan Mahmoud, a Pakistani man, was charged with attempted terrorist assassinations....
...On Tuesday, Zaheer Hassan Mahmoud, a Pakistani man, was charged with attempted terrorist assassinations after injuring two people with a cleaver outside the former Charlie Hebdo offices a week ago....
...Mahmoud Nabavian, a member of the newly-established hardline parliament, said on Tuesday that the US sanctions could only be defeated by “resistance and missiles”....
...Venezuela is more recent, although Mr Guaidó says Iran’s presence in Caracas dates back over a decade to when former Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez struck up a friendship with his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud...
...“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...
...Mahmoud Vaezi, Mr Rouhani’s chief of staff, said on Instagram that the president was “thoroughly happy” with Mr Zarif’s “intelligent and effective approaches”, as a foreign ministry spokesman stressed that...
...“A hundred years has passed since Hassan al-Banna established this organisation. Is it still valid to adopt a concept called political Islam?”...
...She said there were so many problems, she didn't see how they could be resolved....
...“We’re returning to the difficult times of the previous sanctions,” said Hassan, who asked that his real name not be used and referring to the period before the nuclear deal....
...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...
...His first step to make hardliners more accountable was answered by the unrest,” said a former finance official....
...Reformist politicians initially responded by claiming that regime hardliners had organised the demonstrations to undermine the centrist government of Hassan Rouhani....
...The Islamic republic began building the refinery in Bandar Abbas in southern Iran in 2006 during the presidency of Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad, a hardliner....
...Pro-reform analysts said they believed some of the anger has been stoked by Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad, a hardliner who has been increasingly outspoken in his criticism of senior regime officials since his two...
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