Who is afraid of Iran’s Faezeh Hashemi? IranSource by Arash Azizi
Faezeh Rafsanjani (C), daughter of former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, attends an opposition rally in Tehran in this June 16, 2009 photograph made available June 21, 2009. Faezeh, the daughter of Rafsanjani, who is a rival of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was detained during an opposition rally in Tehran on Saturday, an Iranian news agency said on Sunday. Faezeh addressed supporters of defeated presidential candidate Mirhossein Mousavi on June 16 when they gathered near the state television building in Tehran in defiance of a ban on opposition protests. REUTERS via Your View
On March 31, when Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif made an impromptu appearance on Clubhouse, many were impressed by how quickly the room filled with eight thousand listeners (the maximum allowed on the audio-only app
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It’s West Versus East in the Battle to Inoculate the Mideast Tara Kavaler
Russian, Chinese vaccines compete with preparations made in the US, UK and Sweden
The next frontier in the East-West rivalry lies in vaccines against the coronavirus, particularly in the Middle East, where Moscow and Beijing are striving to expand their influence since the United States has scaled back its involvement in recent years.
Foreign policy objectives are being injected into the vaccine distribution process by both the providers and the recipients of the vaccine doses. In some countries in the region, deciding which vaccine to use is only the beginning of the politics involved in getting shots into people’s arms.