ENG - Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (Persian: اکبر هاشمی رفسنجانی Akbar Hāshemī Rafsanjānī, Hashemi Bahramani (هاشمی بهرمانی)) (born February 15, 1934) is an influential Iranian politician, businessman and former President. Currently he holds the position of Chairman of the Assembly of Experts (a deliberative body of Mujtahids that is charged with electing the Supreme Leader of Iran) and Chairman the Expediency Discernment Council of Iran (an unelected administrative assembly that resolves legislative conflicts between the Majlis and the Council of Guardians).
He served as President of Iran from 1989 to 1997. In 2005 he ran for a third term in office, winning the first round of elections but ultimately losing to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the run-off ...
Chairman of the Expediency Council Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said on Sunday that the enemies are now trying to weaken religions in Iran in order to attain their sinister goals.
According to the Public Relations Department of the Expediency Council, Rafsanjani made the remark in a meeting with members of the society of clerics and preachers in Tehran on Sunday.Clerics had played a significant role during the Constitutional Movement specially during the time when tobacco was banned in Iran, he said.Colonialism sought to eliminate clerics from the country's political scene with an aim of ...
alexasa - in poll Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani TEHRAN (FNA)- Chairman of Iran's Expediency Council said here Wednesday keeping in mind present conditions, governing the country is a tough task and the next government would definitely shoulder a very tough task.
Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani who was speaking at a meeting with the secretary general and participating members of the Executives of Construction (Kargozaran) Party, added, "Under such sensitive internal and international conditions the task and responsibility of the country's political parties is felt double as much." Rafsanjani who was speaking to party leaders on the ...
alexasa - in poll Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
