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Ali Akbar Velayati

Iranian official Ali Akbar Velayati, a former foreign minister, walks past a portrait of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at the conclusion of his press conference in Tehran, Iran, June 3, 2013. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
January 30, 2020, 5:55 pm
Trump will fail in his ‘crusader, Zionist’ peace plan, top Iranian official says
Khamenei adviser Ali Akbar Velayati vows Islamic Republic ‘will certainly not remain silent’ in opposing the peace initiative
By AFP
Ali Akbar Velayati, a top adviser to Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, gives an interview to The Associated Press at his office in Tehran, Iran, August 18, 2013. (AP/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)
December 23, 2019, 9:35 pm
Top Iranian official: Israel ‘will regret’ attacks in Syria
Day after strike near Damascus, Russian news agency publishes interview with senior adviser Ali Akbar Velayati saying Israeli airstrikes ‘will not pass without a response’
By ToI Staff and Agencies
A new giant billboard, designed to to mark the 40th anniversary of the Iran hostage crisis, covers the facade of a building in the Iranian capital Tehran, on November 4, 2019. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)
November 4, 2019, 8:42 pm
US unveils fresh sanctions against top Iranian commanders, officials
New restrictions come on 40th anniversary of attack on US embassy, and as Iran ups enrichment, targeting senior military officers, chief justice, and advisers to Khamenei
By ToI Staff and Agencies
France's President Emmanuel Macron (L) greets Iranian President Hassan Rouhani at the Millennium Hotel in New York on September 18, 2017, in New York. (AFP Photo/Ludovic Marin)
July 7, 2019, 1:34 am
France trying to restart talks with Iran as nuclear tensions spike
French President Macron tells Iranian counterpart by phone that he is concerned about weakening of nuclear deal; Tehran says it will up enrichment level
By Agencies
Ali Akbar Velayati, a top adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
July 6, 2019, 9:54 am
Ahead of deadline, Iran readies to increase uranium enrichment level
Top aide to Khamenei accuses Europeans of having ‘indirectly violated’ nuclear deal, says upping enrichment beyond terms of pact backed ‘by every component of the establishment’
By Jon Gambrell
Syrian president Bashar Assad, left, meets with Ali Akbar Velayati, a top foreign policy adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, in Damascus, Syria, April 12, 2018. (SANA via AP)
March 24, 2019, 4:25 pm
Iran says Trump’s Golan recognition a pro-Netanyahu election ploy
Supreme leader’s top foreign policy adviser slams Thursday move by US president as illegal; Trump has denied it is meant to influence Israeli vote
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Ali Akbar Velayati, an adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on Monday, May 18, 2015. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
February 7, 2019, 12:19 am
Iran tells US to get out of Syria, whether it wants to or not
After Trump’s criticism of Islamic Republic during State of the Union, Tehran’s foreign minister accuses Washington of supporting ‘butchers & extremists’
By Agencies and ToI Staff
This combination of pictures shows US President Donald Trump, left, on July 22, 2018, and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on February 6, 2018. (AP Photo)
September 25, 2018, 3:56 pm
Trump says he has no plans to meet ‘lovely’ Iranian President Rouhani
Top adviser to Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei rejects US Secretary of State Pompeo’s suggestion of possible meeting with US leader for talks
By Stuart Winer and Agencies
Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, with Ali Akbar Velayati, a senior adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, at Novo-Ograyovo, Moscow, Russia, July 12, 2018. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
July 13, 2018, 1:12 pm
Top Iran official Velyati: We will only leave Syria if Assad, Baghdad ask us to
In Russia, aide to supreme leader says military presence has ‘no relation to Israel’; threatens to ‘force’ US troops out of war-torn country with ‘powerful’ response
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, with Ali Akbar Velayati, a senior adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, at Novo-Ograyovo, Moscow, Russia, July 12, 2018. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
July 12, 2018, 4:09 pm
Putin hosts aide to Iran’s supreme leader amid Syria talks
Kremlin gives no details of meeting with Ali Akbar Velayati, which come a day after Netanyahu tells Russia Iranian troops must leave Syria
By AP
Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during their meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow on July 11, 2018. (AFP/Pool/Yuri Kadobnov)
July 11, 2018, 11:30 pm
Pledging not to oust Assad, Netanyahu urges Putin to ‘get Iranians out’ of Syria
According to Israeli official, PM asks Russia to remove Iranian troops from country, hours before senior Khamenei adviser visits Moscow
By ToI Staff
Ali Akbar Velayati, a top adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
July 11, 2018, 11:04 pm
Argentina asks Russia to arrest Iran official over 1994 Jewish center bombing
Senior adviser Ali Akbar Velayati, in Moscow for meetings with Putin, already has an international warrant against him on suspicion of ordering deadly terror attack
By JTA
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, July 11, 2018. (Israel Foreign Ministry)
July 11, 2018, 9:36 pm
Meeting Putin, Netanyahu says Israel will counter all border violations
Hours after Syrian drone shot down in Israeli airspace, PM meets Russian president in Moscow for talks on Iran, Syria
By ToI Staff
Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Kremlin in Moscow on May 9, 2018. (AFP/Sergei Ilnitsky)
July 11, 2018, 5:59 pm
Netanyahu arrives in Moscow for ‘very important’ talks with Putin
Prime minister to focus on ‘Syria, Iran and Israel’s security needs’; adviser to Iran’s Khamenei to also hold confab with Russian president
By AP and ToI Staff
Syrian president Bashar Assad, left, meets with Ali Akbar Velayati, a top foreign policy adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, in Damascus, Syria, April 12, 2018. (SANA via AP)
June 22, 2018, 10:35 am
Top Iranian official warns: Syria will be America’s ‘second Vietnam’
Under pressure to withdraw its forces, Tehran tries to turn spotlight on US
By ToI Staff
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