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Hossein Fereydoun. Photographer: Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images

Rouhani’s Brother Arrested On Financial Charges

by Adel al-Salmi | Jul 17, 2017 | World

London- Iran’s judiciary spokesperson Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejeie announced on Sunday that the brother of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and his personal advisor, Hossein Fereydoun, was arrested on financial crime charges. In a weekly-televised press conference,...

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Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani speaks during a news conference in Islamabad, Pakistan, March 26, 2016. REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood

Iran Judiciary Spokesman Says Spat between Rouhani, IRGC Indicates Growing ‘Sedition’

by Adil Alsalmi | Jul 1, 2017 | World

London- Iran Judiciary spokesman Mohsen Ejei said on Saturday that recent disputes registered across the national political and administrative figures point out to a looming threat of sedition. He also evoked the memory of ousted president Abolhassan Banisadr...

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Ebrahim Raisi speaks in Mashhad, Iran. Reuters

Raisi Defends IRGC’s Role, Iranian Missile Program

by Adel al-Salmi | Jun 30, 2017 | World

London- Ebrahim Raisi, who lost in the Iranian presidential elections, met Thursday with Commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) Quds Force Qasem Soleimani and chairman of the Assembly of Experts Ahmad Jannati in addition to the members of the National...

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Commander Mohammed Jaafari on the sidelines of a committee meeting in Tehran,PHOTO: ISNA

IRGC Commander Attacks Rouhani Policies, Boasts about Military Might

by Adil Alsalmi | Jun 28, 2017 | World

London- Iranian Revolutionary commander Mohammed Jaafari criticized President Hassan Rouhani’s for accusing Tehran’s elite guard of intervening in national economic decision-making processes. Jaafari said that the Rouhani administration has inexcusably failed to...

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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. (Reuters)

Iran: The Mullahs’ Discomfort With Persian Language

by Amir Taheri | Jun 16, 2017 | Opinion

Like in most Indo-European languages, sentence arrangement in the Persian language is based on subject, object, verb or SOV in linguistic code. (In Arabic it is the other way round!) This means that the first thing that a Persian sentence does is to identify the...