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Arash Karami

Arash Karami is a contributor to Al-Monitor.

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Iranian lawmaker Ali Motahari speaks in the Iranian parliament in Tehran November 15, 2009. REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl (IRAN POLITICS) - RTXQRB3

Motahari: no Reformist parliament in 2016

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Iran cleric: Khamenei, Rafsanjani have 'fundamental differences'

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Iran Revolutionary Guard defends involvement in oil industry

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Iranian clerics attend a meeting of Iran's Assembly of Experts in Tehran on March 5, 2013. Iran's Assembly of Experts is an 86-seat body that selects the supreme leader and supervises his activities and holds sessions twice a year. AFP PHOTO/ ATTA KENARE (Photo credit should read ATTA KENARE/AFP/Getty Images)

Iran cleric warns of takeover attempt on Assembly of Experts

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Zarif defends handling of kidnapped guards via Facebook

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Tehran police block protest in support of kidnapped guards

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Iranian analyst: Engagement decided before elections

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Kidnapped Iranian border guard killed by militants

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TEHRAN, IRAN - JANUARY 1: A recent undated picture shows Abbas Abdi, one of the passionate Islamic revolutionaries who twenty years ago sent shock waves through the world when they seized the US embassy in Tehran and who are now ardent supporters of the reforms of moderate President Mohammad Khatami. Abdi, whose impressive facial hair once added to his bogeyman image for millions of Americans, is now a journalist on the Sobh-e-Emruz (This Morning) daily. (Photo credit should read HENGHAMEH FAHIMI/AFP/Gett

Prominent Reformist: We can’t blame everything on Ahmadinejad

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Iranian mock aircraft carrier for production of movie

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Khamenei: Culture is even more important than the economy

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Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei departs after casting his ballot in the parliamentary election in Tehran March 2, 2012. Polls opened on Friday for a parliamentary election in Iran that will test the popularity of the clerical establishment at a time of a standoff with the West over the country's nuclear programme. REUTERS/Caren Firouz (IRAN - Tag

Khamenei on Population Control: 'May God and History Forgive Us'

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