Velayati

Iran's state media said Ali Akbar Velayati, a former Iranian foreign minister and confidant of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, led the Iranian delegation.

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Moreover, Velayati accepts the existence of Israel and regards the Holocaust as a historical fact.

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Ms Kolestani is charged with the first-degree murder of Ehsan Velayati Kababian, who died from a bullet to the head while in a parked car near the apartment they shared.

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In the meantime, Iran's foreign minister, Ali Akbar Velayati, who never reached out in support of the victims' families, sent repeated requests to German prison authorities asking that those arrested for the attack be treated well.

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A former foreign minister of Iran, Velayati is the one non-mollah in Khamenei's innermost cadre.

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Kolestani shared few details Monday on the method or motivation behind the Aug. 25, 2008, murder of former housemate and fellow Iranian refugee Ehsan Velayati Kababian.

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Educated at the University of Tehran and the Johns Hopkins University, Velayati is the most pragmatic and least dogmatic of Khamenei's close counselors.

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Fascinatingly, Velayati has unfavorably contrasted "Britain and France" to the U.S., which Cohen perceptively reads as "the Iranian authorities trying to keep their U.S. options open."

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By contrast, conservative figures who have at times harshly criticized Mr. Ahmadinejad, such as parliament speaker Ali Akbar Velayati and rival Mohsen Rezaei, were present at the ceremony.

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According to early reports, Iran's formal response to Solana seemed to have been in line with Elham's -- and not Velayati or Mottaki's -- statements.

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