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| | Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Rafsanjani served as President of Iran from August 17, 1989 to 1997, and was the first president of Iran to step down officially after finishing his period: of his predecessors, Abolhassan Banisadr was successfully impeached, Mohammad Ali Rajai was assassinated, and Ali Khamenei was promoted to Supreme Leader. | | | From a marriage in 1958, Rafsanjani has three sons Mohsen, Mehdi, and Yasser (who was named after Yasser Arafat [1]), and also two daughters Fatemeh and Faezeh. | | | A cleric by profession, Rafsanjani became the first head for the new Iranian Parliament after the beginning of the Islamic Republic and served until 1989. |
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| | Iranian presidential election, 2005 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Rafsanjani and Ahmadinezhad led with respectively 21.0% and 19.5% of the votes, and were followed by Karroubi (17.3%), Ghalibaf (13.9%), Moeen (13.8%), Larijani (5.9%), and Mehralizadeh (4.4%) [1]. | | | Rafsanjani confirmed he is running for the election on May 10, after lots of speculations [8]. | | | Ali Akbar Velayati, an Adviser to the Supreme Leader for foreign affairs, and a former Minister of Foreign Affairs. |
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| | Online NewsHour: Governing Iran Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani PBS |
| | Rafsanjani was elected president in 1989 after the death of Khamenei with 95 percent of the vote. | | | During his own presidency, Rafsanjani was in favor of establishing economic relations with the Western world and was a proponent of women's rights. | | | His conservatism was a drawback for some young voters leading up to the 2005 election -- the majority of eligible voters are under 30 years old. |
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| | Rafsanjani, Hojatoleslam Ali Akbar Hashemi - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Rafsanjani, Hojatoleslam Ali Akbar ... |
| | Following the pro-reformist election, it was disclosed that Rafsanjani was allegedly linked to government officials who had committed human rights abuses and executions of dissidents, intellectuals, and criminals during his presidency. | | | When his former teacher Ayatollah Khomeini returned after the revolution of 1979–80, Rafsanjani became the speaker of the Iranian parliament and, after Khomeini's death, state president and effective political leader. | | | In parliamentary elections in late February 2000 Rafsanjani failed to win a seat, while supporters of President Khatami and their reformist allies won a convincing majority. |
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http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Rafsanjani,+Hojatoleslam+Ali+Akbar+Hashemi
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| | according to earlier reports, bangladesh president shahabuddin ahmed and prime minister sheikh hasina in separate messages to president akbar hashemi rafsanjani condoled the loss of lives in the disastrous earthquake in khorasan province. | | | a condolence message to this effect was sent last night to the iranian president, akbar hashemi rafsanjani, by the indian prime minister, i.k. | | | ankara, may 12, irna -- turkish president suleyman demirel and prime minister necmettin erbakan in their messages to iranian president hojjatoleslam akbar hashemi rafsanjani and first vice-president hassan habibi expressed condolences on the death toll of the earthquake which hit the birjand-qaem area of northeastern iran on saturday. |
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| | Hojjatoleslam Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani |
| | Rafsanjani's terms as president saw some socioeconomic liberalization and appointments of technocrats. | | | Rafsanjani had a role in attempting to repair differences between Muqtada Sadr and the Iranian-supported Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI). | | | He was also deputy chairman of the Assembly of Experts, the body that elects Iran's supreme leader. |
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| | Al-Ahram Weekly Region Shadowy Rafsanjani |
| | Whether Rafsanjani's return was his own inclination, or as many say Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei pushed him to run, the former president is taking the biggest risk of his political career, opening himself up to attack and facing the possibility of an electoral flop. | | | As speaker, Rafsanjani could, ostensibly, head off a potentially disruptive row between the parliament and the Expediency Council, a clerical body he heads that reviews legislation passed by the deputies. | | | Were he to rise to the occasion and guide Iran's fractured polity into a new era, he could ensure his political relevance for years to come. |
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| | Rafsanjani, Hashemi on Encyclopedia.com |
| | In 1989, Rafsanjani was elected president, receiving some 95% of the vote. | | | After the ouster of the Shah (see Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlevi), Rafsanjani helped found the Islamic Republican party and built his political power base as speaker of the parliament (1980-89). | | | Former Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani woos youth vote with tears in campaign broadcast |
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| | The Epoch Times Rafsanjani Allies Seek Unity for Iran Run-off Vote |
| | Rafsanjani and Ahmadinejad, with about a fifth of the vote each, just pulled clear of the pack in a vote damned by Washington as a travesty of the democracy Iranians yearned for. | | | A senior Rafsanjani aide urged reformists, secularists and moderate conservatives to unite behind the former president to maintain a political balance against "militarist" tendencies. | | | Radical hardliner Mahmood Ahmadinejad and pragmatic cleric Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani swept into Iran's first-ever presidential election run-off on Saturday after voters left the reform movement in tatters. |
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| | Iran: Hashemi-Rafsanjani Says Vote For Him Is Vote Against Extremism |
| | As RFE/RL reports, Rafsanjani is urging Iranians to vote against "extremism" by supporting him. | | | Mehdi Karrubi, the moderate cleric who finished third in the first round, is calling on his supporters to vote for Rafsanjani on 24 June. | | | He is also deputy chairman of the Assembly of Experts, the body that elects Iran's supreme leader. |
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http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iran/2005/iran-050623-rferl01.htm
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| | Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani |
| | Rafsanjani — president from 1989 to 1997 — is currently deputy chairman of the Assembly of Experts, which appoints Iran’s supreme leader, the highest political and religious authority in the country. | | | His daughter, Faezeh Hashemi, is a known supporter of women’s rights. | | | The Iranian constitution bans presidents from serving more than two consecutive terms, meaning Rafsanjani can stand in the next elections. |
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http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/review/people_full_story.asp?service_id=8129
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| | Iran: Alarmed Politicians Urge Voters To Choose Hashemi-Rafsanjani |
| | The popularity that eluded Rafsanjani but was present in the eight-year presidency of Mohammad Khatami -- especially evident when Rafsanjani failed to win a seat in the 2001 parliamentary elections -- has suddenly been thrust upon him. | | | Seyyed Hadi Khamenei, a left-wing cleric and brother of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, urged voters on 20 June to hand Rafsanjani "the sapling of political and social liberties and civil rights," ISNA reported. | | | In the second round of Iran's presidential election on 24 June, voters must choose between the very right-wing Mahmud Ahmadinejad and the more cautious former President Ayatollah Ali-Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani, who heads the Expediency Council, a key arbitrating body. |
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| | Familiar face emerges in Iran vote csmonitor.com |
| | Rafsanjani received the fewest votes of 30 candidates elected from Tehran, and gave up his seat two days before the first session. | | | Hard-liners blame Rafsanjani's economic reforms while president, from 1989 to 1997, for creating the seeds of civil society that blossomed into the reform movement. | | | Still, he must weigh past charges of corruption and links with political killings that led voters to rebuke him in the race for the 2000 parliament, or Majlis. |
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| | The man who may be president of Iran -- again / Rafsanjani, in power in '90s, has been attentive to the U.S. |
| | Rafsanjani campaigned for a seat in the 2000 parliamentary election but didn't win one of 30 seats from Tehran -- and then backed out after the Guardian Council awarded him a spot. | | | Khomeini condemned the United States ("the Great Satan") every chance he got, but Rafsanjani has made overtures to Washington throughout his life, including during the past two weeks, when he said he'll consider better relations with the United States if he is elected. | | | If Rafsanjani is elected Iran's president, it will signify a milestone: the re-emergence of a practical man who -- maybe, just maybe -- can moderate a country that's on the brink of going more hard-line. |
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| | Aljazeera.Net - Iran's Rafsanjani urges US to thaw ties |
| | Rafsanjani, 70, served two terms as president from 1989 to 1997 and announced last week he would run in a 17 June election. | | | Since finishing his second term as president, Rafsanjani has headed the Expediency Council, a powerful arbitration body with legislative powers, and has influenced policy on everything from privatisation to the nuclear talks. | | | Rafsanjani said his aim as president would be to turn the |
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| | History of Iran - The History Beat |
| | In August 1989, Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani, the speaker of the National Assembly, was elected President by an overwhelming majority. | | | President Rafsanjani was re-elected in 1993 with a more modest majority; some Western observers attributed the reduced voter turnout to disenchantment with the deteriorating economy. | | | Following Khomeini's death on June 3, 1989, the Assembly of Experts--an elected body of senior clerics--chose the outgoing president of the republic, Sayid Ali Khamenei, to be his successor as national religious leader in what proved to be a smooth transition. |
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| | Telegraph News Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani |
| | Mr Rafsanjani held elected office again in 2000 when he won a seat in parliament but he resigned soon after his victory. | | | He served as speaker of parliament from 1980 to 1989 and for the last year of his term was also commander-in-chief of the armed forces. | | | After the fall of the Shah, Mr Rafsanjani, a conservative, co-founded the Islamic Republican Party. |
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| | Iran Foto |
| | IRAN'S presidential election was headed today for an unprecedented second round, with moderate cleric Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani only narrowly ahead after voters confounded all predictions in the countr... | | | TEHERAN - Iran’s presidential election was headed on Saturday for an unprecedented second round, with moderate cleric Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani only narrowly ahead after voters confounded all predictio... | | | Tehran - Moderate cleric Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was leading on Saturday in Iran's presidential election but the vote was heading for an unprecedented run-off after no candidate secu... |
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| | Unfreeze Our Money and We’ll Talk, Rafsanjani Tells US |
| | Informal opinion polls have placed Rafsanjani as leading the pack of eight candidates approved to run in the June 17 poll, which will mark the end of reformist President Mohammad Khatami’s second and final term in office. | | | The charismatic politician, who has already served as Iran’s president from 1989 to 1997, is campaigning for a comeback on a platform of closer engagement with the international community and moving away from hard-line revolutionary values. | | | But Rafsanjani, a pillar of the regime throughout its 26-year history, said that Khamenei’s predecessor, the revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomenei, had personally requested before his death and “by letter, that seven problems be resolved, notably that of the United States”. |
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| | Rafsanjani pledges reforms if he wins Iran poll - Boston.com - Middle East - News |
| | But outside the stadium there was little support for a man whose family is rumored to be among the richest in the country and whose presidency was associated with a rise in corruption. | | | But the pragmatic cleric -- campaigning hard for the first time in the election race -- got a mixed reception, with many Iranians saying they would either boycott the vote or back his ultra-conservative opponent, Tehran mayor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. | | | Rafsanjani, 70, the pre-election favorite, ran a lackluster first round campaign with no big rallies, relying on his high profile as a former president from 1989 to 1997. |
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| | Hexapedia - President of Iran |
| | Became Supreme Leader after the death of Ayatollah Khomeini in 1989. | | | Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani - elected president in August of 1989, re-elected in 1993, served until January 1997. |
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| | Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani - definition of Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani in Encyclopedia |
| | Rafsanjani was President of Iran from August 17, 1989 to 1997, and as of 2004, the only president of Iran who has stepped down willingly: Banisadr was impeached, Rajai was assassinated, Khamenei was promoted to Supreme Leader, and Khatami is still serving. | | | Rafsanjani has named one of his sons, Yasser, after Yasser Arafat. | | | Akbar Hashemi Bahramani (Persian: &;), famously known as Hashemi Rafsanjani (هاشمی رفسنجانی) (born August 25, 1934) is one of the most influential Iranian politicians, and the Chairman of the Expediency Discernment Council of Iran. |
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| | Hardliner and Rafsanjani to battle in Iran vote run-off - INQ7.net |
| | TEHRAN- Radical hardliner Mahmood Ahmadinejad and pragmatic cleric Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani swept into Iran's first-ever presidential election run-off on Saturday after voters left the reform movement in tatters. | | | Karoubi was in third place with 17.5 percent of the vote. | | | Rafsanjani, by contrast, has gone out of his way to win over the middle ground, promising more social freedom and raising the possibility of talks with the United States. |
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| | Rafsanjani Asks For a Pardon For Akbar Ganji - July 29, 2005 - The New York Sun - NY News |
| | Rafsanjani Asks For a Pardon For Akbar Ganji - July 29, 2005 - The New York Sun - NY News | | | Ganji was rearrested following a medical leave on June 11 for urging his countrymen to boycott last month's presidential election. | | | Rafsanjani, who lost the Iranian presidency in a runoff election last month to hard-liner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. |
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| | Special Dispatch Series - No. 325 |
| | The formation of the Zionist state in the land of Palestine was a multi-faceted base for colonialism. | | | We hope that problems will be solved on the side of right, justice, and truth." | | | Former Iranian president and "Expediency Council" Chairman Ali Akhbar Hashemi Rafsanjani gave the Al-Quds Day sermon on December 14, 2001 at Tehran University, which was attended by thousands of worshippers. |
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| | AIC Update |
| | Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, former Chief of Police and member of the Revolutionary Guards, has lobbied hard for the youth vote in a country where two- thirds of the people are under thirty years old. | | | He has made clear his hopes for rapprochement with the United States, although insisting that the US should take the first steps to end the 25-year estrangement. | | | He said the time could be right to open a "new chapter" in relations with the United States. |
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| | NewsFromRussia.Com Iran began casting ballots in a presidential election |
| | The Rafsanjani campaign, which has promoted a sense of inevitable ascent, has been buoyed by the former two-term president's reputation for managerial savvy and familiarity with the government's highest echelons. | | | But campaign aides said Rafsanjani, 70, likely would not muster the majority of votes required to avoid a runoff a week later -- a stage never before reached in Iranian presidential contests, which tend to be landslides. | | | Seven candidates are vying to succeed President Mohammed Khatami, a reform-minded cleric barred from seeking a third term. |
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| | USATODAY.com - Iran's ex-president: U.S should show goodwill |
| | Each department and institution has its own authorities and responsibilities, and they act on that basis. | | | Slavin: Have you decided to run for president (in the June 17 election)? | | | Rafsanjani: I haven't decided whether to run for the presidency or become a candidate. |
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| | Iran Daily |
| | Aoun is expected to use many tactics for defeating his opponents in the upcoming election. | | | Rezaie predicted 40-45 percent of eligible voters would turn out at the ballot boxes. | | | In fact, Rafsanjani owes his unique political status to the ambiguities surrounding his political affiliations. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Search Results - Rafsanjani Ali Akbar Hashemi |
| | Rafsanjani, Ali Akbar Hashemi, born in 1934, Iranian politician and president of Iran (1989-1997). | | | The sarod was popularized in the 20th century by Bangladeshi musician Allauddin Khan, and his son, Ali Akbar Khan, the latter having performed and... | | | How well did we match your search term? |
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| | Yasser Hashemi Rafsanjani - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Yasser Hashemi Rassanjani is married and has a daughter named Lili. | | | Yasser Hashemi Rassanjani (born 1971) is the youngest son of Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the former president of Iran. | | | In 1989, he graduated from Nikan School System, which was funded by a conservative religious group before Iran's revolution in order to provide the students, from elementary to high school, with a non-secular education. |
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| | In 1995, former Iranian president Ali Hashemi Rafsanjani made a little-noticed trip to the neighboring country of Georgia. | | | Iranian Alert - October 4, 2005 - "Supreme Leader" turns to Rafsanjani for help with Ahmadinejad? | | | Iran’s former President Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said on Wednesday that the United States was faced with defeat in the Middle East. |
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| | BBC NEWS Middle East Profile: Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani |
| | As president, Mr Rafsanjani sought to encourage a rapprochement with the West and re-establish Iran as a regional power. | | | Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani, who could win the presidency for a third term in a run-off election on 24 June, has been a dominant figure in Iranian politics since the 1980s. | | | In 2002, Mr Rafsanjani was appointed head of the powerful Expediency Council, which arbitrates in disputes between the Majlis - Iran's parliament - and the Guardian Council, which can block legislation. |
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| | RedOrbit - General - Unanimous IAEA call astonishes Iran's Rafsanjani |
| | Rafsanjani, head of the Expediency Council which arbitrates on legislative disputes between parliament and a hardline watchdog body, said Iran's decision to resume uranium conversion was irreversible. | | | TEHRAN (Reuters) - Former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said on Friday he was astonished at the unanimity of a call by the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog for Iran to halt enrichment activities, calling it a cruel decision. | | | President Bush said the IAEA resolution was a positive first step. |
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| | "Iran's Burgeoning WMD Programs" (March/April 2002) |
| | Both former defense minister Akbar Torkan and former deputy president and leading reformist Ataollah Mohajerani, whom Khatami subsequently appointed to be his Minister of Islamic Guidance, have called for Iran to develop nuclear weapons. | | | However, Rafsanjani was himself once labeled a moderate by prominent newspapers, like The Washington Post, and even by State Department spokesmen. | | | The roots of the Iran's pursuit of WMD lie in the years of the Iran-Iraq War, though the Shah had previously laid the groundwork for an indigenous Iranian nuclear capability during the 1970s. |
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| | Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Biography / Biography of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Biography |
| | After the demise of Premier Mussadiq's nationalist movement, Ayatollah Borujerdi, one of Rafsanjani's eminent mentors, prevailed upon clergy not to criticize politicians. | | | Raised on a pistachio farm, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (born 1934) rose to become the most important political leader in revolutionary Iran. | | | Akbar Hashemi was born in 1934 as the second of nine children of Ali Hashemi, a modest farmer and local clergyman in the remote Kermanian town of Rafsanjan--thus the family name, Rafsanjani. |
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| | Reform-Minded Iranian Students Back Rafsanjani Reluctantly |
| | Rafsanjani will square off against Tehran mayor Mahmood Ahmadinejad in Friday's vote. | | | Friday's runoff presidential election in Iran pits a moderate former president against the hardline conservative mayor of Tehran. | | | Ex-president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani is looking to pick up the votes of students who have been the backbone of the reform movement. |
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| | USATODAY.com - Iran's new president walks a hard line |
| | The election of Tehran's mayor as Iran's president consolidates power under supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and will bolster those in the United States who argue against engagement with Iran's theocratic regime, some Iran analysts say. | | | Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, center, defeated former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani in a runoff election Friday. | | | Ahmadinejad defeated former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani in a runoff Friday. |
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| | Iranian Reform Party Hints That It Will Support Insider - New York Times |
| | But his aides said he had rejected the idea, and instead would try to win by using proxies - including reform party leaders - to convince voters that his opponent is dangerous for society. | | | Rafsanjani, Hamzeh Karami, said the campaign would also not address the election fraud charges, though Mr. | | | Rafsanjani, Dr. Mostafa Moin, a reform candidate, and a former police chief, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, a conservative. |
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| | Divisive last day for Iran's presidential runoff campaign |
| | Former Tehran Mayor Gholam Hossein Karbaschi said that vigilantes in the holy city of Qom had roughed up an ayatollah who supported Rafsanjani. | | | Backers of Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the two-term former president, held a half-dozen rallies in Tehran. | | | Rafsanjani, 70, billed as a "pragmatic conservative," has cast himself in the campaign as a seasoned businessman, wily negotiator and the only figure with the stature to confront hard-line clerics holding Iran back from the changes necessary to prosper economically and renew ties with the United States. |
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| | THE IRANIAN: Books, "Aalijenaab-e sorkhpoosh", Akbar Ganji |
| | - Inviting Rafsanjani to a debate: The murder case of F.F. Elections and the danger of patriarchy's return | | | - Abdollah Nouri, Hashemi Rafsanjani and Kargozaran Party | | | He argued that there had been many other political assassinations during the presidency of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the current head of the Expediency Council, all of which must be investigated. |
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| | NewsFromRussia.Com Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani will stand for president again |
| | Tony Blair faced Labour Party members behind closed doors Wednesday in a confrontation where loyalists shouted down calls from rebels for Blair to step aside over Labour's slashed majority in last week's elections. | | | Powerful Iranian cleric Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani officially confirmed today that he will stand again for president in June 17 elections, his spokesman said. | | | Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani will stand for president again |
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| | Rafsanjani says he is sorry about Ganji's conditions - Irna |
| | Asked about composition of the future cabinet of President-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Rafsanjani said he had no information about it and was waiting to see the cabinet members introduced by Ahmadinejad. | | | Expediency Council Chairman Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said here Thursday he was sorry about jailed journalist Akbar Ganji's conditions. | | | He said he will definitely cooperate with the government of Ahmadinejad and any other officials have the duty to do so. |
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| | E:M Myth of the moderate Rafsanjani |
| | Enough to say that the Supreme leader never felt necessary to establish an intelligence organization parallel to the one run by the Khatami's government, during Rafsanjani's presidency. | | | There is something I like about American neo-conservatives: They don't differentiate between Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the former president of Iran, and Ali Khamanei, the supreme leader of Iran, in terms of their involvement in various violations of human rights and accounts of corruption in Iran. | | | Most of the opposition leaders and intellectuals were murdered under Rafsanjani's watch by his own intelligence and security apparatus. |
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| | CNN.com - Rafsanjani to face Tehran mayor - Jun 18, 2005 |
| | TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- Former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani will face Tehran Mayor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a runoff election for the Iranian presidency, the Ministry of Interior said. | | | He's expressed a desire to improve Iran's strained ties with the West -- including the United States, which has had no formal diplomatic ties with Iran since its 1979 Islamic Revolution. | | | CNN.com - Rafsanjani to face Tehran mayor - Jun 18, 2005 |
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| | CNN.com - Rafsanjani: U.S. must do more - Jun 15, 2005 |
| | "Yes, I consider these steps in the right direction," said Rafsanjani, who served two terms as Iran's president from 1989 to 1997. | | | Rafsanjani is considered the favorite to win Friday's presidential election, according to opinion polls. | | | Regarding claims by the United States that Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism, Rafsanjani said it was Americans who created terrorists. |
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http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/06/14/iran.rafsanjani
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| | APS Review Gas Market Trends: PROFILE: ALI AKBAR HASHEMI RAFSANJANI@ HighBeam Research |
| | Simultaneous with his landslide victory was the overwhelming vote for constitutional amendments widening his executive powers. | | | The man in charge of anything of importance in Iran, from deals with foreign states or companies to major projects, Rafsanjani was elected as the fourth President of the Islamic Republic on July 28, 1989. | | | APS Review Gas Market Trends: PROFILE: ALI AKBAR HASHEMI RAFSANJANI@ HighBeam Research |
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