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Arash Karami

Arash Karami is a contributor to Al-Monitor.

Iraqi Shiite militia fighters hold the Islamic State flag as they celebrate after breaking the siege of Amerli by Islamic State militants, September 1, 2014. Picture taken on September 1, 2014. REUTERS/Youssef Boudlal (IRAQ - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS MILITARY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - RTR44N6G

Iran conservatives reject cooperation with US against IS

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Iran Foreign Ministry casts doubt on US coalition against IS

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Iran ministry accused of targeting conservative news sites

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Ayatollah Khamenei’s media team live-blogs his surgery

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Iran's President Hassan Rouhani addresses the audience during a meeting in Ankara June 10, 2014. REUTERS/Umit Bektas (TURKEY - Tags: POLITICS) - RTR3T16B

Rouhani speaks out against harsh enforcement of veil

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Iraqi women walk past a poster depicting images of Shi'ite Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at al-Firdous Square in Baghdad February 12, 2014. An Iraqi daily newspaper stopped publishing after two bombs were planted in the entrance to its headquarters in Baghdad on Monday and after threats from an Iranian-backed Shi'ite militia. Editors and reporters at Assabah AlJadeed said they had received death threats from the influential Asaib al-Haq militia in response to what it had described as an "insu

Ayatollah Khamenei urges Iran to prepare for 'new world order'

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Reformists lose Tehran city council chairmanship

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Ayatollah Mohammad Reza Mahdavi-Kani (C, top table) gives the opening speech during Iran's Assembly of Experts' biannual meeting in Tehran March 6, 2012. REUTERS/Raheb Homavandi (IRAN - Tags: POLITICS) - RTR2YWR0

Reformist cleric skips Assembly of Experts session

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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping (not pictured) during a meeting at the Xijiao State Guesthouse in Shanghai, May 22, 2014. REUTERS/Kenzaburo Fukuhara/Pool (CHINA - Tags: POLITICS) - RTR3QAM1

After minister's impeachment, critics of Rouhani grow louder

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TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY MOHAMMAD DAVARI
An Iranian couple inpect the box of an IPhone they just bought at a computer shop selling Apple products in northern Tehran on June 1, 2013. The United States lifted a ban on sales of communications equipment to Iranians and opened access to Internet services and social media, in a bid to help the Iranian people avoid government controls. The US State Department said the action will allow Iranians to skirt "attempts to silence its people by cutting off their communic

Iran cleric explains he's not opposed to 'filtered' 3G phones

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Grand Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi (2nd R) casts his vote in Qom, 120 km (75 miles) south of Tehran, June 17, 2005. Iranians began voting for a new president on Friday, with wily pragmatist cleric Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani the front-runner in an unusually tight election denounced by the United States as unfair. REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl MN/TZ - RTREOCM

Iranian cleric rules 3G phones un-Islamic

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Iran website denies Qasem Soleimani sidelined

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