...and they have assembled enough material to make a nuclear bomb. All this in the context of former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani’s open threat that “even one atomic bomb inside Israel will wipe it off the face of the earth.” Canada – one of the...
...Dec. 2 (Xinhua) -- Chairman of Iran's Expediency Council Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said on Tuesday that "the United States is the main enemy of the Islamic Republic of Iran," the official IRNA news agency reported. Making the remarks on the...
...of five leading Iranian politicians and diplomats in office at the time, including former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. Both Iran and Hezbollah have denied any part in the attack. The blast, on 18 July 1994, reduced the seven-storey AMIA...
...themselves as Islamist. They included hardline conservatives on the "right", the "left", the pragmatists headed by Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the moderates and those who with some qualification could even be described as "liberal". During the reign of the...
...Former Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani expressed relief about stability and security in Lebanon and highlighted the importance of Lebanese leaders' efforts to preserve unity, Tehran's official Islamic Republic News Agency reported Monday....
...29 (Mehr News Agency) Expediency Council Chairman Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani dismissed Israel's military threats against Iran as a psychological warfare. Any threat against Iran is bigger than Israel's mouth, Rafsanjani said in comments carried by...
... Former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani's comments at Friday prayers in Tehran reflect mounting concern about prices that have more than halved since July. A central bank official said even before the latest slide that the drop rang an "alarm bell"....
Background
Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (Persian: اکبر هاشمی رفسنجانی Akbar Hāshemī Rafanjānī), Hashemi Bahramani (هاشمی بهرمانی) born on February 15, 1934, is an influential Iranian politician, and in September 2007 was elected to the post of Chairman of the Assembly of Experts and of the Expediency Council of Iran.
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