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Former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani attends a meeting of Iran’s Assembly of Experts in Tehran on March 5, 2013.(AFP PHOTO/ ATTA KENARE)
by Ali M. Pedram | Apr 19, 2013 | Middle East
London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Iran’s influential former president Hashemi Rafsanjani is reported to have ruled himself out as a presidential candidate this week, as well as criticizing the “stubbornness of office holders whose deeds have put the country in this undesirable...
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In this November 12, 2010 file photo, Hezbollah fighters hold their party flags, as they parade during the opening of new cemetery for colleagues who died in fighting against Israel, in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon.AP Photo/Hussein Malla
by Huda Al Husseini | Feb 17, 2013 | Opinion
With Syria’s accelerating and inevitable collapse, Iran’s growing role becomes more and more prominent as it tries to win on all the fronts and draw attention away from its internal problems. Conflicts within Iran are growing as the date of the...
