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...“Total production is expected to fall to about 170 tonnes from nearly 400 tonnes,” said Ali Shariati-Moghaddam, chief executive of Novin Saffron, a leading Iranian producer and exporter....
...Mashhad now has the most private music studios in the country, said Ali Alavi, the editor of Khorasan daily newspaper, a conservative outlet in Mashhad....
...Admiral Ali Fadavi, deputy commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, said whenever US forces entered the Gulf, “they say ‘we are in hell’”....
...The move comes several months after US authorities charged the bank’s Iranian-born owner and former chairman Seyed Ali Sadr Hasheminejad with organising a scheme to evade US sanctions against Iran by illegally...
...The assets of Pilatus Bank were frozen in March after Seyed Ali Sadr Hasheminejad, its then chairman and owner, was arrested and charged with organising a scheme to illegally funnel more than $115m from...
...Mehdi Karroubi, an opposition leader, who for decades was a regime insider, on Tuesday released an open letter to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei that blamed the supreme leader for the mounting discontent....
...Seyed Ali Sadr Hasheminejad, owner and chairman of Pilatus Bank, is charged with organising a scheme to illegally funnel more than $115m from Venezuela to Iranian-controlled companies via western banks....
...Maltese private bank Pilatus Bank and its owner, Iran-born Seyed Ali Sadr Hasheminejad, known as Ali Sadr, had filed proceedings against Caruana Galizia earlier last year....
...That history was upended with the announced candidacy of Ebrahim Raisi, a protégé of Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader....
...Before his death, according to aides, Rafsanjani had urged Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader, to consider a restructuring of the political system to address society’s ills....
...He also controls what is believed to be the Islamic republic’s wealthiest institution: Astan-e Qods Razavi, a religious foundation that owns properties and land across the country....
...“We are in transition to a new order in Mashhad,” said Ali Alavi, the editor of Khorasan, a conservative daily....
...But hardliners, a loose grouping of figures who claim to be unconditionally obedient to the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and oppose any rapprochement with the west, still hold sway in institutions...
...The western warnings came as Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, said Saudi Arabia would face “divine vengeance” for the “unjustly spilled blood” of Nimr....
...to Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, said this week in Syria....
...Iran’s supreme leader and ultimate decision maker, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, insisted on Saturday that there would be no nuclear deal with major powers unless they brought an immediate end to sanctions and...
...But now the Iranian is accused by Gholam-Ali Sadeghi, prosecutor in Mashhad, of fraud that Iranian media says is worth as much as 940tn rials ($34.3bn), although judiciary officials say the value is still...
...The city’s central square, the Naqsh-e Jahan (“image of the world”), is surrounded by two exquisitely tiled mosques, cloistered walkways and the Ali Qapu palace....
...Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader and ultimate decision maker, underwent prostate surgery on Monday, according to state media in a rare admission of a leader’s ill health that comes at a difficult...
...“All the marjaieh want him to leave the premiership,” said Seyed Ibrahim Jaberi, a cleric who heads Mr Sadr’s Baghdad office. “The hawza want him out. Even ISCI wants him out....
...The travel agent who booked the tickets in the Thai coastal resort of Pattaya said their itinerary was arranged by a long-term Iranian customer she knew only as “Mr Ali”....
...Second, he is uniquely placed to develop a win-win compromise regarding Iran’s nuclear ambitions: Mr Rohani won a landslide victory in the popular vote and he has the approval of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,...
...Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has for the first time raised the prospect of bilateral talks with the US over the country’s disputed nuclear programme, but he also quickly damped any hope of...
...Fattaneh Haj Seyed Javadi led the way....
...Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the country’s supreme leader who has the last say in all state affairs, cast his ballot for the 290-seat legislative body early in the morning....
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