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...Ali Mohsen al-Allaq, the previous incumbent, was named as acting governor....
...Mohsen Mehralizadeh, a reformist contender in the 2021 presidential election, wrote in a tweet last month that even if the whole cabinet were overhauled, nothing would change....
...Ali Mohsen al-Allaq, the new central bank governor, defended measures introduced to stabilise the monetary crisis that has led to an acute shortage of US dollars and a sharp fall in the dinar....
...Akbari held several senior positions in the Iranian government, and was a deputy defence minister from 1997 to 2002 when Ali Shamkhani was defence minister....
...Shekari “confessed” that a man called Ali had promised to pay him money for attacking security forces, according to local media reports....
...The ceremony formally marked Raisi’s endorsement as president by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader....
...Ali, a 40-year-old engineer who did not want his real name and current occupation published, fears more executions are on the way....
...Mohsen Mansouri alleged in his post on Twitter that foreign embassies and intelligence services were also involved....
...Whereas once people doubted our technology, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said, “now they’re saying: ‘Iranian drones are very dangerous, why are you selling it to so and so?’.”...
...But Mohammad Ali Abtahi, a cleric and former reformist vice-president, warned of the potential for the demands for change to split society....
...“They can announce and reassure us that all sanctions imposed after the JCPOA [the 2015 nuclear accord] would be lifted in less than one year and tell us to go and negotiate this process,” Mohsen Rezaei,...
...President Hassan Rouhani has urged Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, to intervene, local media said....
...Ali Vaez, analyst at the Crisis Group think-tank, says the west’s options range from “unattractive to outright ugly”....
...Raisi has a healthy lead over his main rivals: Abdolnaser Hemmati, who was central bank governor before announcing his candidacy as the main reformist candidate, and Mohsen Rezaei, another senior conservative...
...This has lifted hopes for candidates such as Major General Mohsen Rezaei, a member of the Revolutionary Guards who led the elite force for 16 years....
...Mohsen Rezaei, a senior conservative general, garnered just 3.4m ballots, while the sole reformist candidate, Abdolnaser Hemmati, a former central bank governor, took 2.4m....
...Iran accused Israel of involvement in an explosion at Natanz last July, as well as the killing of its top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh in November....
...In November, Iran accused Israel of killing its top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh....
...Iran’s ministry of defence said Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, head of its Physics Research Centre, was killed in his car. Assailants shot him, according to a state news agency....
...Last week’s killing of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the Islamic republic’s top nuclear scientist, has escalated tensions in a difficult period ahead of the US presidential transition....
...As nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh’s black Nissan sedan car approached a boulevard in the Damavand region, about 60km from the capital Tehran, an automatic machine gun, installed inside a blue pick-up...
...“Iranians have never had so much access to information,” says Mohammad-Ali Abtahi, a former reformist vice-president....
...Their resistance forced the president to dismiss his pro-reform culture minister, Ali Jannati, last month....
...“Music censorship has lost its previous nature and left only a bureaucratic façade,” said Mohsen Shahrnazdar, an Iranian anthropologist....
...Rather “the legal criteria is only . . . the consent of velayat-e-faghih” — the supreme jurisprudence held by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei....
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