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King Abdullah of Saudi-Arabia: According to an embassy dispatch, he can't stand his neighbors in Iran and, expressing his disdain for mullahs in Tehran, said "there is no doubt something unstable about them." Photograph: Spiegel Online International
Mehriban Aliyeva (second from right), the wife of Azerbaijan leader Ilham Aliyev: She has had so much plastic surgery that it is possible to confuse her for one of her daughters from a distance, but that she can barely still move her face, according to US embassy dispatches. Photograph: Spiegel Online International
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