He is one of the most consequential figures in the ongoing crisis in the Middle East but who exactly is the 85-year-old supreme leader? Image:Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during a meeting in Tehran, Iran Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has the ...
it plans toget rid of the position of the elected president. But, more importantly, it aims not to elevate or project a single individual to the position of supreme leader (as is the case in the neighbouring Islamic Republic of Iran). Instead, it intends ...
Starmer has spent four years as opposition leader dragging his social democratic party from the left towards the political middle ground.
Atkins has argued against too much market regulation, and Trump said Atkins is a “proven leader for commonsense regulations.” The agency oversees U.S. securities markets and investments. The current chairman, Gary Gensler, has been leading the government’s crackdown on the cry...
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'I've Held, and I Still Hold, Stalin in the Highest Esteem': Discourses and Strategies of Resistance to De-Stalinisation in the USSR, 1953–62 Leader cults rarely go quietly, fading into obscurity after the demise or removal of their central figure. The comprehensive claims which they make...
The assassination of President McKinley in 1901 elevated to the presidency Theodore Roosevelt, leader of the party’s progressive wing. Roosevelt opposed monopolistic and exploitative business practices, adopted a more conciliatory attitude toward labor, and urged the conservation of natural resources. He...
This handout picture provided by the office of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei shows him during a meeting with military personnel and veterans of the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war, in Tehran on Sept. 25, 2024.Photo by KHAMENEI.IR/AFP via Getty Images Iran is the m...
First lady Jill Biden will host 20 guests in her viewing box at the State of the Union, ranging from a gun violence prevention advocate to a labor union leader to a foreign prime minister. They were selected, the White House said, because they “personify the issues or themes” that ...