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The ultra-conservative Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati is set to lead Iran's Assembly of Experts, which selects the country's next supreme leader, apparently blocking the moderate camp's political ascendency.
Culture: It took an Islamic revolution to put the brakes on Iran's pop culture explosion. With the election of a 'liberal' administration, I-pop is back in the spotlight.
As protests sweep the Islamic Republic of Iran, Iranian women tell °®Âþµº that they will no longer accept their bodies being a political battleground.
The tendency of Iranian hardliners to demonise those that engage with the West while still relying on comparisons with the US to justify their rule when it favours them reveals both hypocrisy and incompetence, writes Kourosh Ziabari.
Comment: The Sairoun bloc's victory is proof that a significant popular base exists that is ready to accept radical change, regardless of who offers it, writes Sam Hamad.
Comment: Mohammed bin Salman is erratically pursuing short-term gains in a desperate and dangerous bid to secure his own ambitions, writes Jonathan Fenton-Harvey.
Comment: As principal allies of the West, Israel and Saudi Arabia should be held to the highest moral standards, writes Muhammad Shehada.
Comment: Given MBS got away with Khashoggi's murder entirely unscathed, the tipoff warning Norway-based activist Iyad el-Baghdadi of a Saudi threat is of grave concern, writes Sam Hamad.
Comment: An 'Arab NATO' would represent the final nail in the coffin for the region's wave of Arab revolutions, writes Sam Hamad.
Iran's poster child of expat return quits his government role just seven months into the job, following pressure from conservative officials.