Iran Mobilizes Amid Intensifying Regional Conflicts

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The Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, formerly the Faculty of Oriental Studies, is an academic department of the Humanities Division at the University of Oxford in Oxford, England, United Kingdom.

Ali Ardashir Larijani is an Iranian politician and former military officer in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, who has served as Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council since 2025. He served as the speaker of the Parliament of Iran from 2008 to 2020. He has been a member of the Expediency Discernment Council since 2020, having previously served from 1997 to 2008. He filed for candidacy in the 2024 presidential election, but was ultimately disqualified. He previously ran in 2005, but finished in sixth place, and was also disqualified from running in 2021.

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