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...“Over the past 40 days, messages have been exchanged between Iran and the US, via the US interests section at the Swiss embassy in Tehran,” foreign minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said in an interview,...
...A week later, Iran’s foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian travelled to Jeddah for a meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation. Iran’s message was understated but clear: we don’t want war....
...Also on Thursday, Iran’s foreign minister Hossein Amirabdollahian visited Iraq to discuss issues including Gaza, and was to make a subsequent stop in Lebanon....
...“Mohammed bin Salman — with his long-term development plans — needed the agreement [with Iran] not to have Houthis’ missiles every day....
...Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman held a rare call with Iran’s president Ebrahim Raisi on Thursday....
...Sheikh Mohammed also had a phone call with his Iranian counterpart, Hossein Amirabdollahian, last week about the outstanding issues at Washington’s request....
...New Iraqi premier Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudani’s fledgling government is buttressed by parties and militia groups close to Tehran....
...More than three decades ago, he sparked anger in the Muslim world for the depiction of the Prophet Mohammed in his book The Satanic Verses....
...Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, Iran’s foreign minister, told Iranian MPs that Lavrov’s weekend intervention would not affect Tehran’s position....
...He is also hostile towards Mohammed bin Salman, crown prince and de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia....
.../ From Mohammed Afkhami, Gstaad, Switzerland...
...At the same time, leaders such as Saudi Arabia’s crown prince Mohammed bin Salman and his UAE counterpart Mohammed bin Zayed are strengthening ties with Russia and China....
...Grand Ayatollah Hossein Vahid Khorasani, the most senior cleric, is 99....
...This year, Hossein Sheikholeslam, a former senior diplomat close to Iran’s hardliners, told the Financial Times that Iran was not sending missiles to Yemen, before adding: “If you think that this expertise...
...Mr Zaimi’s brother, Hossein Zaimi, is global head of equities at HSBC and his sister, Sanaz Zaimi, is head of fixed income, currency and commodity sales at BofA....
...The others being Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, who is due to host Mr Bolton next week, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Mohammed bin Zayed, the United Arab Emirates’ de facto leader...
...General Hossein Salami, commander of the Revolutionary Guard, told Iranian state television that the downing of the drone “sent a clear message” to the US....
...We said these negotiations wouldn’t bear fruit,” said Hossein Shariatmadari, editor of Kayhan, a state-run newspaper that is viewed as the hardliners’ mouthpiece....
...Hossein Kazempour Ardebili, Iran’s Opec governor, told the agency that the US request for increased Saudi production was “crazy and astonishing”, and predicted that Opec would reject the call....
...More than 2m Iranian pilgrims went to southern Iraq on Thursday to mark the 40th day of martyrdom of Hossein, the third Imam of the Shia, in a display of power....
...At least 13 people were killed in the two attacks, Pir-Hossein Kolivand, head of Iran’s emergency department, was quoted as saying by the official Irna news agency on Thursday....
...In recent days, he was welcomed by thousands of supporters in Qom who liken him to the son of Fatima, the daughter of the Prophet Mohammed....
...The intense fighting in the area also claimed the life of Iran’s most senior commander in Syria, Brigadier General Hossein Hamedani — a linchpin figure in the war effort of President Bashar al-Assad....
...My host is Hossein Shariatmadari, the much-feared editor and commentator at Kayhan, mouthpiece of Iran’s Islamic fundamentalists....
...This “spiritual pop art” movement combined lustrous Persian dynastic emblems with numerology and calligraphic forms (examples by Hossein Zenderoudi and Parviz Tanavoli stood out in the exhibition Iran Modern...
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