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...Other ascending figures from the cohort include Hamid Rasaee, 55, a hardline cleric elected in Tehran....
...Hamid, a 22-year-old salesperson in Tehran, who did not vote, said: “What is the point of voting when I know my vote wouldn’t change anything?”...
...“The current situation of low petrol prices is not sustainable, but the government does not have the political courage to increase prices,” said Hamid Hosseini, a petrochemicals trader....
...[and] the supreme leader pardoned them,” hardline politician Hamid-Reza Taraghi said of the protesters and the decision to free them....
...Hamid-Reza Jalaeipour, a sociologist, says how the authorities behave ahead of next year’s parliamentary elections will be one of the indicators about which direction the leadership takes....
...Mohammad Yaqoob, Taliban founder Omar’s son, has been appointed acting defence minister....
...Ghani said he was warned he would meet the same fate as Mohammad Najibullah, a former president and communist who was murdered by the Taliban when they over-ran Kabul in 1996....
...The return of the exiled King Mohammad Zahir Shah to the throne was also rejected....
...Other political leaders, including Hamid Karzai, the former Afghan president, are holding talks with senior Taliban officials to form a power-sharing government....
...Instead, he was appointed deputy to Mohammad Hassan Akhund, an adviser to the late Taliban founder Mohammed Omar....
...Others such as Abdul Rashid Dostum and Atta Mohammad Noor are reportedly in exile. Any Afghan resistance would also struggle to attract international support....
...The recent decision to appoint Mohammad Idris, a Taliban veteran with no known economic training, as acting central bank governor suggested the new Islamist power would prioritise ideologues over experience...
...“Whether Zarif or a figure more senior than him runs or not, I’m not going to vote,” said Hamid, a 40-year-old engineer....
...Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan’s former president, confirmed Ghani’s departure and said he was in talks with other Afghan leaders and the Taliban for a peaceful handover....
...As Ghani later explained on Facebook, he did not want Afghans to see “the president hanged once more” — a reference to Mohammad Najibullah, the communist-era leader who was strung up soon after the Taliban...
...The ayatollah has previously voiced concern that some Iranian women were more likely to model themselves on Sophia Loren than Fatemeh, the daughter of Prophet Mohammad....
...After the first period of Taliban rule, the National Archives were reopened by the then president Hamid Karzai, and proper record-keeping practices were introduced....
...When Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, a leading hardline politician, visited coronavirus patients in hospital, the contrast with centrist president Hassan Rouhani could not have been starker....
...But Hamid-Reza Taraghi, a hardline politician, said Iran had no choice....
...That was cut short when Hamid and Mohammad Fahad al-Qahtani, another co-founder of the group, were put on trial....
...Liam Fox, the UK’s former international trade secretary, and Mohammad Maziad Al-Tuwaijri, a Saudi minister who advises the royal court on economics, will go forward to the second of three rounds of voting...
...Mohammad Omari, it turns out, is not a fighter, but a softly spoken assistant to the shadow governor of Ghazni....
...Britain’s Liam Fox and Saudi Arabia’s Mohammad Maziad Al-Tuwaijri were also late entrants into the contest, which can now formally kick off after the deadline for countries to put forward candidates passed...
...“The new members of parliament are supported by a small minority of citizens,” said Hamid-Reza Jalaeipour, a university professor of sociology....
...There was a boost for Hamid Mamdouh, the Egyptian former negotiator, on Friday....
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