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...If you are Mohammad bin Salman, one of the reasons you’re really angry with western countries these days is the following....
...Political figures in the region fled, including anti-Taliban leaders Abdul Rashid Dostum and Ata Mohammad Noor, who sought refuge in neighbouring Uzbekistan, according to local news reports....
...“On the face of it, Macron has acquitted himself extremely well,” said François Heisbourg, special adviser at the Fondation pour la Récherche Stratégique think-tank....
...But then he ducked into the town hall for a secret meeting with Mohammad Javad Zarif, the Iranian foreign minister, after a months-long French drive to reduce tensions in the Gulf and return the US and Iran...
...“The mere change of central bank governor was a positive message to society,” said Mohammad-Reza Pour-Ebrahimi, head of the parliament’s economic committee....
...But in Saudi Arabia the Wahhabi clerical establishment pours out sectarian venom enjoining the faithful to spurn the infidel and combat the (Shia) idolater....
...“If this happens, a more intense ‘Sunni war against Shia Islam’ will pour petrol on Isis’s ideological fire,” he said....
...“Hardliners are telling people that their only route to change is to pour into the streets,” said one analyst, who asked to remain anonymous....
...Mohammad-Ali Jafari, commander of the Revolutionary Guards, also warned this week against any talks with the US....
...Many people praised Hassan Rouhani, Iran’s centrist president, and Mohammad Javad Zarif, the chief nuclear negotiator, who are celebrated on social media as national heroes....
...This weekend tens of thousands of Malaysians will pour on to the streets of Kuala Lumpur to shout the name of their prime minister, Najib Razak. They will be coming not to praise him, but to bury him....
...“I was never given a permit to work freely in Iran, either under [former presidents Mohammad] Khatami or [Mahmoud] Ahmadi-Nejad, and I never knew the reason for that....
...It says it gained the right to control Abu Musa through an agreement between the ousted Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran and the ruler of Sharjah, one of the UAE’s seven emirates....
...One after the other, residents of the capital pour into the building in Algeria Square to tell their stories and demand action by the Tripoli municipal government....
...Authorities accused the Islamic Iran Participation Front, which is close to former reformist president Mohammad Khatami, of intending to “localise” a “velvet revolution” modelled on US-backed changes in...
...“We believe that this election is fundamentally wrong and should be re-run,” Ali-Akbar Mohtashami-Pour said. “Our problem is not one or two ballot boxes.”...
...He lights another cigarette and one of the public relations people who pop in and out of the room pours him a coffee as I ask him how a superstar manages his home life....
...“They claimed I didn’t have enough of a reputation,” says Mr Jalaei-Pour. “But I fought eight years in the Iran-Iraq war and three of my brothers are martyrs....
...“These sanctions are like a flood that overcomes the private sector but also strengthens the state and all its network and agencies,” says Mohammad Tabibian, a prominent reform-minded economist....
...Part of the dilemma, explains Jalaei-Pour, is that women now make up 62 per cent of the university student body. ”Women are not radical in their politics....
...Mohammad Khatami, the former president who had presented to the world the moderate face of Iran, is said to have conveyed to top leaders his grave concerns about US intentions on his return from last month...
...The choice indicates Iran's next administration intends to reverse the reforms in international, political and cultural fields undertaken by Mohammad Khatami, the former president....
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