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...story, which appeared on an opposition website, alleged that Rafsanjani and the Supreme Leader have had a climactic parting of ways, a final end to the pretense of keeping their deathbed promise to Imam Khomeini. The incident reportedly involves the wife of Alireza Beheshti, a close aide of Mir-Hossein Mousavi, the presidential candidate who was declared the loser in June to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Beheshti has the status of a living martyr for the opposition and is enduring his second period of detention since the election (he has survived a heart attack in prison). He is also...
...group's Paris-based umbrella organization, the National Council of Resistance of Iran, has held fundraisers in Washington. One of the group's former spokesmen, Alireza Jafarzadeh, now serves as a Fox News foreign affairs analyst. From Paris, the group's leader, Maryam Rajavi, has waged an effective p.r. campaign, gathering a following of European MPs to support removal of the group from the E.U.'s terrorist list and to oppose Ashraf's closure...
...among the event’s organizers. The concert was not free of controversy, however, as a few students expressed doubts about the concert’s claims to nonpartisanship. “We don’t think this is just an innocent event,” said Alireza M. Doostdar, a Ph.D student in anthropology and Middle Eastern studies. “It cannot be divorced from the current political situation.” Prior to the event, Doostdar and others distributed flyers questioning the intentions of the concert organizers. At the back of the crowd...
...among the event’s organizers. The concert was not free of controversy, however, as a few students expressed doubts about the concert’s claims to nonpartisanship. “We don’t think this is just an innocent event,” said Alireza M. Doostdar, a Ph.D student in anthropology and Middle Eastern studies. “It cannot be divorced from the current political situation.” Prior to the event, Doostdar and others distributed flyers questioning the intentions of the concert organizers. At the back of the crowd...
...could be used to produce bombmaking material. Last December, NCRI blew the whistle on Iran's uranium-enrichment plant in Natanz, heightening international concern about the nature of Tehran's nuclear ambitions. Just how much nuclear help Iran is getting from North Korea isn't clear, says NCRI spokesman Alireza Jafarzadeh. "We do know they have benefited," he says...