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Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini

Iranian worshippers take part in prayers at the Imam Khomeini Mosque in Tehran with a poster of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in the background. (AFP)

Open letters underscore Iranians’ frustration with Khamenei’s rule

Palestinian Authority

Impasse. A Palestinian man sits on top of the rubble of his house at the site of buildings demolished by Israel in the West Bank in the area of Sur Baher in East Jerusalem, July 24. (AFP)

Why the Palestinian leadership cannot get out of the Oslo Accords

Palestinians

Challenging Israelisation. A 2018 file picture shows Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu (L) speaking with Israeli Knesset member Ayman Odeh (R) during a session in Jerusalem. (AP)

Palestinian Israelis look for elections to fight discrimination

Lebanon

A demonstrator holds a placard during a gathering in support of Lebanese indie band Mashrou’ Leila in Beirut, July 29. (AFP)

Lebanon’s Christians are missing the point

Khairallah Khairallah

Lebanon

Lebanon’s Druze leader Walid Jumblatt (R) attends talks at the parliament building in downtown Beirut. (Reuters)

Walid Jumblatt, last man standing

UK

Iranian Revolutionary Guards patrol around the British-flagged tanker Stena Impero as it’s anchored off the Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas, July 21. (AFP)

Can Boris Johnson part ways with the US on Iran?

Trump

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz (R) shakes hands with US President Donald Trump during their meeting on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Japan, June 29. (AFP)

Trump takes on congress to protect US-Saudi ties

Gregory Aftandilian

Turkey

US President Donald Trump (L) shakes hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin as Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan looks on, on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan, last June. (AFP)

Miscalculations are a pattern with Erdogan

Khairallah Khairallah

Turkey

Turkish Treasury and Finance Minister Berat Albayrak (L) and European Commission Vice-President Jyrki Katainen at the EU-Turkey High Level Economic Dialogue Meeting in Istanbul, last February. (Reuters)

EU’s blind eye to Turkey may prove costly