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Muhammad Ali al-Houthi, who heads the Houthi movement’s Supreme Revolutionary Committee, attends a rally in Yemen’s capital Sanaa July 10, 2015. Reuters
by Nayef Al-Rasheed | Sep 6, 2017 | Middle East
Riyadh- Contradictory statements of Houthi and Saleh militias have reflected the deep dispute between the coup parties in Yemen. Yemen’s former president Ali Abdullah Saleh denied on Monday any tension between his party (General People’s Congress) and Houthis....
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Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani is Iraq’s top Shiite cleric. AFP
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by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jan 16, 2017 | Features
London – The public scene in both Iraq and Iran raises many question marks on the future of religious authority amid recent reports on the health conditions of Ali Khamenei, supreme leader of the Islamic Revolution in Iran and Ali al-Sistani, the most eminent...
by Adel al-Salmi | Jun 5, 2016 | Middle East, World
London- Recently declassified documents revealed that Washington had shown undue leniency to the Ayatollah Khomeini scheme and mission of the Wilayat al-Faqih, otherwise known as the Guardianship of the Islamic Jurist. At the peak of negotiations, Khomeini requested...
