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Al-Monitor – “Regional presence grants us strategic influence and greater national power,” Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told members of the Assembly of Experts, a body of Iran’s most powerful clerics, constitutionally in charge of supervising his performance. “Why do we have to give up on [such activities]?” Khamenei asked rhetorically. He was addressing criticism both at home and abroad on …
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