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All the celebrity looks, fashion on the 2025 Met Gala red carpet at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

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Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei receives the Iranian organizers of this year’s Hajj rituals in Tehran’s Hosseiniyah of Imam Khomeini (RA) on Sunday.