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He has responsibility for the overall conduct of the country in religious, political and social matters. and he runs iran's foreign policy. plus, he has ultimate oversight of the powerful revolutionary guard corps, the irgc. this shows the real intensity of feeling... but some past presidential elections, like the one in 2009, which i covered, have seen anger and violence spill over on a national scale. and without the use of considerable force, the islamic regime might not even have survived. this election, though, could be marked by inertia, and lack of interest, like the last one in 2021, w...

Syrians, have swamped lebanon's schools and hospitals, and brutal invasions by syria and israel have done it immense damage. this is the famous corniche... when i was in beirut recently, i was shocked by the number of beggars on the streets — people who've been forced out of their homes in syria by the civil war there. now, perhaps unsurprisingly, a backlash against the refugees is growing in lebanon. i spoke to carine torbey, the bbc�*s beirut correspondent. there is absolutely no end in sight for this crisis. lebanon is already overwhelmed with its own problems, which are massive. this i...

And, of course, the population of cyprus has swelled quite considerably, hasn't it, as a result of refugees going there? in the last year, uh, and according to the ministry of interior in cyprus, the number of, you know, illegal immigrants who left from lebanon to cyprus has increased 27 fold. cyprus said, "i can't take any more." and what they did, they came to lebanon to tell lebanon that, "you have to help us crack down on this movement of illegal immigrants," and they might, you know, discover that the only way to do this is probably to work together, rather than each one blaming the other...

Or majority stakes in things like the shard, sainsbury�*s, the london stock exchange, barclays, and they've invested billions in this country. but they are controversial at the moment, because they provide a home to hamas, to the political wing, the external political wing of hamas. a lot of israelis will say, "what do you mean, the external wing, the political wing ? there's no such difference, they're all terrorists, all of them." but qatar doesn't view things quite that way. qatar is very much on the side of political islam, and that's why it was up on the naughty step recently for severa...

Absolutely, this has backfired and backfired tremendously against the prime minister. he was accused of, you know, playing the european game of, you know, just take some money and keep the refugees in lebanon, be the kind of, you know, the coastguard of europe, and it has only contributed to fuel the tension. lebanon is such a fragile country. do you yourself think that lebanon can survive all this? when you speak to the refugees, you feel there are so many stories that are extremely heartbreaking, and you just wonder, "why can't it be that they're just staying here?" they're living here, they...