Ali Larijani likely regards himself as a principled man. As the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, he remains a loyal foot soldier of the Islamic Republic, boasting a lifetime of service to the regime in a range of senior leadership positions. Among other roles, he was a speaker of Iran’s parliament, a minister of culture and Islamic guidance, and a head of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), the regime’s state-run media and propaganda conglomerate. He has described Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as a “divine man,” while routinely casting the United States as the “great Satan.”
Yet Larijani does not publicly discuss an inconvenient fact: One of his own daughters has made the great Satan her home. Until last week, Fatemeh Ardeshir-Larijani served
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