Category: raisi
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Fact Check: Image of France’s Macron greeting Iran’s Khamenei is AI-generated
An image of French President Emmanuel Macron and Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei shaking hands was shared alongside a picture of France’s Marshal Phillipe Petain greeting Adolf Hitler with the caption, “France: Surrendering to evil since 1940.” However, the image of Macron greeting Khamenei is AI-generated. The photo collage shared online, opens new tab…
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Ali Khamenei crowns himself as the leader of the Muslim world – opinion
Khamenei’s speech introduced nothing new on a strategic level. It was an ideological, mobilizing speech in which he justified the missile attack by Iran against Israel. By SALEM ALKETBI OCTOBER 15, 2024 04:23 IRAN’S SUPREME Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei awards a medal of honor to IRGC Aerospace Force Comdr. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, in Tehran, this…
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Iran Fights for Influence in the post-Soviet Space: Turkic States Are Cautious
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 88 (Oct 13, 2024) The war in Ukraine has substantially weakened Russia’s position in Central Asia and the Southern Caucasus, requiring an increasing amount of resources to sustain. Iran is endeavoring to fill the power vacuum that Russia left in these post-Soviet regions while simultaneously exercising caution to prevent conflict. Tehran is…
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Iran may acquire atomic weapons in short time – MP
Iran Materials 12 October 2024 12:08 (UTC +04:00) Follow Trend on BAKU, Azerbaijan, October 12. Iran can get nuclear weapons in a short time—within six months, the Iranian parliament member Mohammad Mannan Raisi told local media, Trend reports. According to him, Iran has made many achievements in its nuclear program over the past year. Therefore,…
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Walking a Tightrope: How Gulf States are Navigating the Iran-Israel Conflict
Editor’s Note: Mehran Haghirian closely monitors Iran’s relations with its Arab neighbors across the Persian Gulf. He is a frequent contributor to Stimson. By Barbara Slavin, Distinguished Fellow, Middle East Perspectives When the Gaza war erupted a year ago, a major question faced the nations of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC): Would they draw closer…
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Russia’s Putin holds first meeting with Iran’s Pezeshkian: What we know
Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, Friday, in their first face-to-face meeting since Pezeshkian’s election in late July. During the meeting on the sidelines of an international forum of Central Asian leaders, Putin hailed Russia’s relations with Iran as “sincere and strategic.” “Relations with Iran are a priority…
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Russian and Iranian leaders meet amid warming ties and escalating Middle East conflict
CNN — Russian President Vladimir Putin met with his Iranian counterpart Masoud Pezeshkian for the first time on Friday, as relations between the two sanctioned nations warm and the Middle East braces for Israel’s response to Tehran’s largest-ever missile attack last week. The meeting at a regional summit in Ashgabat, the capital of the Central…
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Iran foreign minister in Saudi for talks on Gaza, Lebanon
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi. Photo: AFP file Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi travelled to Saudi Arabia on Wednesday for talks that were expected to cover efforts to end fighting between the Israeli military and Iran-backed groups in Gaza and Lebanon. “I hope that these consultations can lead to better conditions for Palestine and Lebanon…
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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei: Who is Iran’s supreme leader and how powerful is he?
Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has the final say on all major policies, serves as commander-in-chief of the armed forces and controls the Revolutionary Guard. Mr Khamenei was born into a clerical family in 1939 in Iran’s second-largest city Mashhad. He received a religious education there before turning his attention to political activities against…
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Iran’s Puny President
The rigged election of Masoud Pezeshkian as Iran’s supposedly ‘reformist’ president in late June was quickly undermined by an unprecedented tsunami of executions. No less than 191 executions have been reported since Pezeshkian took office, including 29 in a single day. Thirteen were hanged on September 24, the very day Pezeshkian addressed the UN General Assembly in New York.…
