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    Ali Akbar Velayati (Persian: علی‌اکبر ولایتی English pronunciation; born 24 June 1945) is an Iranian conservative politician and physician. He is currently...
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    Ali Akbar Hashimi Bahramani Rafsanjani (25 August 1934 – 8 January 2017) was an Iranian politician and writer who served as the fourth president of Iran...
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  • Ali-Akbar Shahnazi (1897–1985), Iranian musician Ali Akbar Velayati (born 1945), Iranian politician Ali Akbar (writer) (born 1978), or Alakbar Aliagha oglu...
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    to run in the election; Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel, Ali Akbar Velayati, Saeed Jalili, Mohsen Rezaee, Mohammad Gharazi, Hassan Rouhani...
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    Hojatoleslam * Emami Kashani, Mohammad, Ayatollah * Mousavi, Mir Hussein * Velayati, Ali Akbar * Mohammadi Reyshahri, Mohammad, Hojatoleslam * Sane'i, Hassan, Hojatoleslam...
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    adviser to the Supreme Leader (of Iran) in international affairs, Ali Akbar Velayati, is the secretary-general of the convention(s). The World Assembly...
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    in the October 1981 Iranian presidential election. He put forward Ali Akbar Velayati as his prime minister, but the Iranian parliament did not give him...
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    August 30, 1981. When Ali Khamenei became president in the elections of October 1981, he first introduced right-leaning Ali Akbar Velayati to the Majlis as...
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    October (after Majlis' negative vote to Khamenei's first candidate, Ali Akbar Velayati) and then the new government replaced Mahdavi-Kani's interim government...
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    840208. eISSN 1521-0448. ISSN 0149-5933. S2CID 153558136. Velayati, Ali Akbar. "Ayatollah Ali Khamenei". The Great Islamic Encyclopedia (in Persian). Archived...
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  • of resistance" was used as early as August 2010. After two years, Ali Akbar Velayati, senior advisor for foreign affairs to Iran's supreme leader, used...
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  • is the head of center. Before that, the head of organization was Ali Akbar Velayati who replaced former head Hassan Rouhani, the former President of Iran...
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    former presidents Hassan Rouhani and Mohammad Khatami, Ali Akbar Velayati, Mohammad Javad Larijani, Ali Fallahian, and Mostafa Pourmohammadi. Beheshti also...
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    attacking a US warship. Speaking to the United Nations Security Council, Ali Akbar Velayati, Iran's Minister of Foreign Affairs, called the shootdown the "most...
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    government composed of technocrats. Ali Akbar Velayati, International Affairs Advisor to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, stated in October 2014...
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    Paris. Rouhani and his team, whose members had been introduced by Ali Akbar Velayati and Kharazi as the best diplomats in the Iranian Foreign Ministry...
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    Islam". In 2006, Iranian Supreme Leader Khamenei had sent his adviser Ali Akbar Velayati with a letter asking for Abdullah's agreement to establish a formal...
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    candidates, Ali Akbar Velayati and Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel, formed a coalition called "2+1". He was endorsed by former candidates, Alireza Ali Ahmadi and...
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    the elections. Ali Akbar Velayati, an Adviser to the Supreme Leader for foreign affairs, and a former Minister of Foreign Affairs. Velayati was supported...
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    of the party were Mohammad Javad Bahonar, Mohammad Beheshti, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Ali Khamenei, and Abdolkarim Mousavi-Ardabili. Early members of...
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  • people, including Ali Akbar Velayati (Head of Board), Abdollah Jassbi, Ali Akbar Nategh-Nouri, Hassan Khomeini, Mohsen Qomi, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani...
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    International Development at Harvard University. Retrieved 30 December 2010. Ali-Akbar Velayati; Valerii Bakayev; Moslem Bahadori; Seyed-Javad Tabatabaei; Arash Alaei;...
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    He formed a coalition named 2+1 with Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and Ali Akbar Velayati in October 2012 to one of them be the coalition's candidate in the...
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  • Senior Iranian officials attended the service; Ali Akbar Velayati representing the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and Foreign Minister Manuchehr Mottaki...
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    British soldiers. Iran denied any role in the attack. Foreign Minister, Ali Akbar Velayati said, "We deny any involvement and we think this allegation is another...
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    Ali Akbar Velayati Succeeded by Manouchehr Mottaki Ambassador of Iran to the United Nations In office 12 April 1989 – 30 August 1997 President Akbar Hashemi...
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  • Followers of the Line of the Imam and the Leader. Shahab od-Din Sadr Ali Akbar Velayati Abbas Sheibani Mohammad-Karim Shahrzad Marzieh Vahid-Dastjerdi "سخنگوی...
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    al-Assad. "Al-Assad" in Arabic means "the lion". Assad's paternal grandfather, Ali Sulayman al-Assad, had managed to change his status from peasant to minor...
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    September 2013 when Ali Shamkhani was appointed to the post. Immediately after leaving the office, he was appointed by the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to the...
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    Rafsanjani, then president, Fallahian, then intelligence minister, and Ali Akbar Velayati, then foreign minister. In addition, he was the subject of an international...
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