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Source: https://www.thetimes.com/world/middle-east/article/iran-regime-protests-news-0qghkwmtf
Children of the Iranian Elite Flaunt Their Lives of Luxury
(The Times-UK) Gabrielle Weiniger - Aghazadeh is a Persian term that used to be a title for the children of clerics and has evolved to refer to the new generation benefiting from the political riches of their fathers. "They're the equivalent of the Iranian 'Gossip Girl' [a reference to the U.S. drama series following the lives of Manhattan's teenaged elite]: luxury cars, living in opulent high-rises in north Tehran," said Ella Rosenberg, a senior researcher at the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs focusing on Iran and counterterrorism financing. "Their lifestyle has enraged, not only made angry, but enraged the citizens of Iran, specifically Gen Z in their age group, mainly because they see how these rich kids live - with no accountability for anything that they do. Their families and parents and grandparents are making sure that their lives in Iran are easy, living the life of luxury." Supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei has several relatives in Britain and France, including his nephew Mahmoud Moradkhani, while the grandchildren of the founder of the Islamic revolution, Ayatollah Khomeini, have settled in Canada. The brother of Ali Larijani, secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran, lectures in Scotland on cybersecurity, while the children of former president Hassan Rouhani live in Austria and studied at Oxford. According to one former Iranian minister, 5,000 aghazadeh live in America.