Born to Kurdish-Persian parents in 1961 near Mashhad, a Shiite pilgrim hub in Iran's northeast, Ghalibaf is an expert in human and political geography, who married Zahra Sadat Moshir in 1982 - their wedding officiated by Khomenei - and has three chil
The world is now 26 days into a war it did not want and cannot afford - one that has devoured over 3,000 lives across the Middle East, burned through hundreds of billions of dollars, and shocked global energy markets into a crisis underlined by bench... [6366 chars]