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"Returning to the roots of the revolution" became their mantra. Under the auspices of an austere and dogmatic supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, a "war generation" is taking control in Iran - young rightists who were molded by the prolonged war...
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(Reuters) - As tensions over Iran's nuclear program ratchet higher once again, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's aversion for the West remains a formidable barrier to any diplomatic solution. A visit by U.N. nuclear inspectors to Iran this week, a...
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She said lawyers, university students and other "bright-minded people" are often targeted by those loyal to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Malekpour has been accused of insulting Islam under Sharia law after someone used an Internet...
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Tougher and tougher economic sanctions from the United Nations are just not going to do it. The regime in the Islamic Republic will continue to inch closer and closer to acquiring nuclear warheads, while Ayatollah Ali Khamenei continues his assaults of...
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The United States watched and said nothing. b. Offer the thugocracy all the goodies in the world if they would only stop. But these are fanatical thugs, today's versions of the suicide battalions of Japan and Hitler. Martyrdom cults are found...
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To Tehran, talks with the 5+1 are nothing but a maneuver to buy time. According to the Tehran daily Kayhan, published by “Supreme Guide” Ali Khamenei, diplomatic moves don’t alter the regime’s strategic goals. In an editorial yesterday, Kayhan recalled...
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1991, saying: ‘It was obvious they were madly in love. Their intimacy and affection was so sweet and romantic.’ He then spoiled it by going on to say homophobia contributed to Whitney’s fall, and that he wanted to see a more tolerant society ‘where...
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Israel’s leadership, in addition, sees through a Jewish prism and is unlikely to take a nonchalant view of existential threats to the Jewish state. Israeli fears have been fed by explicit statements from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and...
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In some countries, such as Tunisia and Egypt, popular revolutionary movements toppled authoritarian leaders that had been in power for decades. Hosni Mubarak had been President of Egypt since Anwar al-Sadat's assassination by Islamists in 1981. ...
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Since the protests against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s victory in the 2009 election, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has distanced himself from Ahmadinejad. Meanwhile, members of Iran’s multi-layered power structures — built to balance its...
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There were pictures of the nuclear reactors, of laboratories, of flyovers showcasing a modern city.There were photographs of scenic beauty, of incredible calligraphy and massive domes, and of ruins showcasing an ancient civilisation. Iran, which is...
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This is despite the fact that these elections will not, in all likelihood, lead to much change in the current make-up of the Parliament, which is dominated by right side of the political spectrum and solid supporters the country's Supreme Leader,...
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Iranian Navy Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari said on Saturday that the warships have made their second ever journey through the Suez Canal following Iran 's 1979 Islamic Revolution in line with the orders of the country's Supreme Leader...
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insists sanctions are not working, while his Defence Minister, Ehud Barak, thinks they are starting to be effective. Complicating it all is uncertainty over who calls the shots in Tehran, where Mr Ahmadinejad is in a...
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He was led to this belief in secret back channel exchanges at the highest level between US and Turkish representatives and emissaries of the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei which paved the way for the formal talks. Our Washington sources describe...
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Iran manipulates the Palestinian cause, raising suspicions about Ismail Haniyeh's recent visit to Tehran, writes Khaled Amayreh in Ramallah Ismail Haniyeh delivers his speech in front of portraits of late Iranian revolutionary founder Ayatollah...
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Leader. In his 23rd letter to Ayatollah Khamenei, dissident Mohammad Reza Nourizad has a pointed message: " They will attack us ...and people don't care because Americans are perhaps better." 0600 GMT: Elections Watch. Various manoeuvres on Friday...
About Ali Khamenei
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Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Hoseyni Khāmene’i (help·info) (علی حسینی خامنهای, born 15 July 1939), (not to be confused with Ayatollah Khomenei) also known as Ali Khamenei, is an Iranian politician and cleric. He has been Supreme Leader of Iran since 1989 and before that was president of Iran from 1981 to 1989. He has been described as one of only... Full Article
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