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The Iranian refugee who was played by Tom Hanks in “The Terminal” died | New Web Journal | Santiago del Estero

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The Iranian refugee who was played by Tom Hanks in

He was known as the “Iranian refugee from Roissy” and his story went around the world until it became a source of inspiration for the film The Terminal, directed by Steven Spielberg. Mehran Karimi Nasseri, who lived for 18 years at the Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, died on Saturday in terminal 2F of … Read more

Lack of effective Iranian ‘soft power’ could cost its regional influence dearly

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Lack of effective Iranian soft power could cost its regional

On August 1, the daily al-Akhbar published an article with a revealing title, evoking “the Sadr-Maliki bomb”. A choice of words which, for a publication considered close to Hezbollah, betrays at least some concern about the risk of armed confrontation to come between the two major Iraqi Shiite poles, led respectively by Moqtada al-Sadr and … Read more