He is a longtime friend of Ahmadinejad, a relative by marriage, and a member of his innermost circle, a coterie so tight as to form a faction within a faction in Iran's ruling establishment.

他是内贾德多年的好友，双方还有姻亲关系；他也是内贾德核心小组的成员，一个伊朗统治阶层集团内一个联系紧密的小团体。

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A relative by blood or marriage; a kinsman or kinswoman.

因血缘关系或婚姻关系而成的亲戚；男亲戚或女亲戚。

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Critical appointments include the installment of Vice Marshal Jang Song-u, a Kim relative by marriage, to command of all forces around the capital of Pyongyang.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The House of Kim

Perhaps the biggest blow of all suffered by the organisation was last week's death in an American bombing raid in Afghanistan of Mohammed Atef, a relative by marriage of Mr bin Laden, and described in an American court paper as al-Qaeda's military commander.

ECONOMIST: The al-Qaeda network