Word: mehdi
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...image as the leader of the downtrodden. At home, the hallmark of his presidency has been his visits to provincial towns and villages, always highlighting the plight of society's least privileged in his speeches. "We came to make a revolution from within the state," the President's aide Mehdi Kalhor tells TIME. "This was a revolution of the barefooted...
...rejale mazhabi-siasi, defining the qualification of candidates appears to be applied exclusively as "religious and political men" - even though it can also be read as "religious and political personalities." Says Jamileh Kadivar, a former member of parliament who heads women's affairs for the campaign of presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi: "We are dealing with both legal and institutional discrimination." Among the women who registered this time, the most prominent was the conservative politician Rafat Bayat. She was disqualified in 2005 but insisted on standing again, because, she explained, "I am a political personality...
...What I listened to yesterday were the ghazal [a Sufi song form] of Mehdi Hassan and then I listened to Tchaikovsky, and then I listened to an Irish artist - I don't know who it was. So it's like three weird things. I was traveling from Bangalore to Chennai...
Barack Obama may be new to the world of international diplomacy, but he has already scored an impressive victory by co-opting Iran into joining the U.S.-led efforts to rebuild Afghanistan. At an international, one-day conference on Afghanistan at the Hague, Tuesday, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Mohammad Mehdi Akhundzadeh offered to help fight the Taliban, saying that, "Iran is fully prepared to participate in the projects aimed at combating drug trafficking and plans in line with developing and reconstructing Afghanistan...
...picture is further complicated by a third reformist candidate, former parliament speaker Mehdi Karroubi, who may not agree to step aside. In the 2005 election, similar attempts to settle on a single candidate to run against Ahmadinejad faltered, in part because Karroubi insisted on staying in that race...