Sentence examples for seyyed from inspiring English sources

The starting point was the death, late in October of 1977, of Seyyed Mustafa Khomeini, the son of the exiled Ayatollah.

Alef's editor, Seyyed Amir Sayyah, seemed like a modest and courteous man.

The mosque was still a place of pilgrimage, because its grounds contained the tomb of Seyyed Jamaluddin, the father of a local governor from the fifteenth century.

"That's totally out of the question," Seyyed Hossein Rezvani, the Iranian Foreign Ministry's deputy director-general for human rights, told The Associated Press, saying that Iran had numerous domestic mechanisms for handling such issues.

The semi-official news site Khabar Online reported that Ayatollah Seyyed Ahmad Khatami, Tehran's Friday prayer leader, said: "I explicitly declare my view that what he said in his message was exaggeration".

The head of the Airlines Association, Seyyed Abdol Reza Musavi, told Mehr that flights in Tehran, Kish, Mashhad and other airports had been halted because the carriers failed to repay their debts, and that fuel would now be provided "on a cash-only basis".

Writing in the Psychiatric Times in August, Seyyed Nassir Ghaemi of Tufts University in Boston argued that this was not the answer.

I had telephoned ahead for an appointment with Shariatmadari, and had been connected with a Pakistani aide of his named Seyyed Rivzi, who spoke English.

"This dear group has gathered today to protest against the murder of Shias and Muslims in Bahrain and to call on the United Nations to fulfill its responsibility and protect the Bahraini people," said Seyyed Reza Ali-Shah Hosseini, a Shiite cleric from Pakistan.

"Day five, 3am, it's white smoke," tweeted the deputy Iranian foreign minister, Seyyed Abbas Araghchi, referring to the terminology used in Vatican for the announcement of a new pope.

But what sets the dismissal of the current intelligence minister apart is the reaction of Iran's most powerful man, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei.