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...The regime’s key concern is ensuring a smooth succession to the 84-year-old supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, when the time comes....
...Some great renditions include ‘Alif Allah’ by Arif Lohar and Meesha Shafi and ‘Afreen Afreen’ by Rahat Fateh Ali Khan.”Shiza Shahid: ‘Cooking reconnects you with your body, the food system and each other...
...Some great renditions include “Alif Allah” by Arif Lohar and Meesha Shafi and “Afreen Afreen” by Rahat Fateh Ali Khan....
...“Our commander has defended us for so many years,” said Shirin, a 42-year-old teacher. “I did not cry for my father’s death as much as I cried for General Soleimani.”...
...“The operation was a great success for the Revolutionary Guards, which managed a complicated intelligence operation,” said Mohammad-Ali Abtahi, a former reformist vice-president....
...In New York, he dines regularly with Neshat, Kami and Ali Banisadr and “rocks up” to their studios whenever possible....
...In speeches and on his Twitter account, Ayatalloh Ali Khamenei revelled in the spectacle that was the presidential campaign....
...“Challenging extremist ideology is what we all want,” said Shuja Shafi, the council’s general secretary in response to the speech....
...Halfway through the marriage ceremony, he stepped forward and read an extract from a poem in Persian (the Azmoodeh family originally hail from Tehran): Az mohabbat talkh-hâ shirin shavadaz mohabbat mes-hâ...
...His bafflement when asked what he knew of sexual delights in New Jersey, or why he, a Muslim, would have a woman’s phone number — in this case Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi’s — on his mobile....
...“The crackdown on Salafis is just a way for the Nahda party to appear moderate and against hardline Islamists,” said Khadija Shafi, a sociologist and well-known leftwing political activist....
...Shafi al-Ajmi, a Kuwaiti preacher, praised an alleged massacre in June of dozens of “bad” Shia by Syrian opposition fighters in the village of Hatla in the country’s east....
...However, Brigadier General Ali Ahmed Khan, chief of the fire brigade at the scene, said there was little hope of finding anyone alive. “Our men went inside and saw some dead bodies in the ground floor....
...Dallaire (Retd), Senator, Former Commander of UNAMIR, the United Nations peacekeeping force for Rwanda Basil Eastwood, Former UK ambassador to Syria (1996-2000) Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace Laureate (2003...
...These sequences, co-created with artist Ali Soozandeh, are punctuated with statements to camera: Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi, dissident Shia cleric Mohse Kadivar . . ....
...Farzad Kamangar, Ali Heidarian, Farhad Vakili and Shirin Alamhouli, who were ethnic Kurds, as well as Mehdi Eslamian, whose brother had been executed in 2009 for a bomb explosion in the southern Iranian...
...Mr Zeidabadi may be paying a price for having challenged the authority of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader, in an open letter written two years ago....
...Shirin Ebadi, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate, called him the “father of human rights” in Iran. Analysts in Qom expected Ayatollah Yusef Sanei to attract the followers of Mr Montazeri....
...Ali Larijani, the speaker of Iran’s parliament, denounced the president’s “disgraceful comments”....
...Shirin Ebadi, the Nobel Laureate, revealed that her sister, Nooshin, is among those detained....
...Radical protesters also have harassed Shirin Ebadi, the Nobel peace prize laureate, claiming that she backs Israel, a charge she denies....
...Several female artists and writers – photographer and film-maker Shirin Neshat, novelist Monica Ali – mine this territory and its ambivalences, but Mutu is the most flamboyant, and the one who dares take...
...They include the Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi, who has signed a strongly worded statement against the “unequal treatment of half of the Iranian population”....
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