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Ali Pedram
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on : Sunday, 12 May, 2013

Iran: Elections heat up as Rafsanjani, Mashaei sign on

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—The list of presidential hopefuls was completed by 6 pm in Tehran. After months of speculation about which heavyweight candidates would be competing in the elections, Hashemi Rafsanjani and Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei officially submitted their candidacies on Saturday. Speculations grew rife as the registration deadline approached and no news emerged about Rafsanjani and Mashaei’s nomination. Had they not decided to run, the election would have been a one-horse r...

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Asharq Al-Awsat
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on : Saturday, 11 May, 2013

High-profile Iranian candidates register

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—On Saturday, the fourth day of registration for Iran’s presidential elections, a number of high-profile figures officially submitted their candidacies. Well-known figures such as former Majlis speaker Gholam Ali Haddad-Adel, former vice president Mohammad Reza Aref, former Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commander Mohsen Rezaei, and Tehran mayor Mohamamd Baqer Qalibaf, officially registered for the hotly-contended presidential elections. As for wh...

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Amir Taheri
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on : Friday, 10 May, 2013

Opinion: Tehran Nervous as Election Process Starts

On Tuesday, Iran’s presidential election was kick started, with would-be candidates beginning to register at the start of a 40-day sprint to polling day. By all accounts, the Teh...

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Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed
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on : Friday, 8 Mar, 2013

Iran is More Than a Movie

The Academy Award winning movie “Argo,” which tells the story of six US Embassy staffers who hid in the Canadian Embassy in Tehran during the Iran hostage crisis has incited di...

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Amir Taheri
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on : Friday, 22 Feb, 2013

The Mullahs and the Ceausescu Syndrome

Ever since human societies developed systems of government the exercise of power has depended on two factors: persuasion and coercion. Persuasion is needed to encourage subjects or...

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Asharq Al-Awsat
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on : Thursday, 14 Feb, 2013

Shateri: Iran’s Regional Point Man

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—The killing of a senior Iranian commander west of Damascus highlights Tehran's military involvement in the Syrian civil war. General Hassan Shateri...

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