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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 willingly: 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. | | | Rafsanjani is currently the Chairman of the Expediency Discernment Council, that resolves legislative issues between the Parliament and the Council of Guardians and advises the supreme leader on matters of national policy. |
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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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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akbar_Hashemi_Rafsanjani
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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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| | 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]. | | | Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Chairman of the Expediency Discernment Council and a former President of Iran, who has won the support of several parties from both of the wings (and may still win more support), but is considered to be leaned towards the conservatives more than towards the reformists. |
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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. | | | Rafsanjani, the second of nine children, was born in 1934 to a wealthy pistachio-growing family in the town of Rafsanjan, which later became the family's surname. |
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| | Rafsanjani, Hojatoleslam Ali Akbar Hashemi - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Rafsanjani, Hojatoleslam Ali Akbar Hashemi |
| | 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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| | 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). | | | Hashemi Rafsanjani was born in 1934 to a family of pistachio farmers. |
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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. | | | Rafsanjani has been remarkably dismissive of the young -- he seems as deaf to their demands and presence as they are to the supposed benefits of his deal-making. |
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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. | | | Rafsanjani was born in 1934 to a family of pistachio farmers. |
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| | Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani |
| | Rafsanjani president from 1989 to 1997 is currently deputy chairman of the Assembly of Experts, which appoints Irans supreme leader, the highest political and religious authority in the country. | | | The Iranian constitution bans presidents from serving more than two consecutive terms, meaning Rafsanjani can stand in the next elections. | | | Rafsanjani is also one of the most trusted advisers of supreme leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, founder of the Islamic republic of Iran. |
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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. | | | Hashemi Rafsanjani is currently the Chairman of the Islamic Republic's Expediency Discernment Council, that resolves legislative issues between the Parliament and the Council of Guardians and advices the supreme leader on matters of national policy. |
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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. | | | Rafsanjani is being hailed by some as a pragmatic conservative who alone can bridge vicious political divides and steer Iran through foreign crises that range from its nuclear program to forging détente with the United States. |
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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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| | 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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| | 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 willingly: 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. | | | Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (Persian: اکبر هاشمیرفسنجانی), born as Hashemi Bahramani (هاشمی بهرمانی), born August 25, 1934, is one of the most influential Iranian politicians, and is currently serving as the Chairman of the Expediency Discernment Council of Iran. |
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| | Online NewsHour: Governing Iran |
| | 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. | | | Rafsanjani, the second of nine children, was born in 1934 to a wealthy pistachio-growing family in the town of Rafsanjan, which later became the family's surname. |
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| | Rafsanjani, Hojatoleslam Ali Akbar Hashemi |
| | 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& 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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| | Notes on Former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani |
| | Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was born 1934 in Rafsanjan in Kerman Province, Iran. | | | Former President Rafsanjani was born near Rafsanjan in the province of Kerman in 1934. | | | Rafsanjani was active in Iranian politics well back into the 1960s and was even jailed for his activities.With the fall of Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlevi, Rafsanjani became a powerful man in Iranian politics not because e sought power but because he is always willing to serve the revolution. |
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| | Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article |
| | Rafsanjani has three sons Mohsen, Mehdi and (additional info and facts about Yasser) Yasser who was named after (Palestinian statesman who is chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (born in 1929)) Yasser Arafat and also two daughters Fatemeh and (additional info and facts about Faezeh) Faezeh. | | | Hashemi Rafsanjani is currently the Chairman of the (additional info and facts about Expediency Discernment Council) Expediency Discernment Council, that resolves legislative issues between the Parliament and the (additional info and facts about Council of Guardians) Council of Guardians and advises the supreme leader on matters of national policy. | | | Rafsanjani is considered a leading candidate to succeed (additional info and facts about Khatami) Khatami in the (additional info and facts about next Presidential election) next Presidential election, if he agrees to run again. |
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| | [FREE IRAN Project] In The Spirit Of Cyrus The Great :: View topic - Christian Amanpour By Former Ambassador H. Hakimi |
| | After Khomeinis death in 1989, Rafsanjani became President for two terms. | | | Rafsanjanis status as one of the most despised figures in the clerical regime came under limelight in the year 2000, when he stood for parliamentary elections in Tehran and came in last at the thirtieth slot. | | | Rafsanjani's sins from gross corruption to mass murder are fairly well known, and there are probably limits beyond which even a British foreign secretary or a French foreign minister will not go to make nice to the mullahs. |
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| | Rafsanjani Watch |
| | Rafsanjani presented a rare copy of the Holy Quran to Khatami during the session, which was also attended by the heads of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government. | | | Rafsanjani did not interrupt Tavassoli’s seemingly impromptu assault on the ultra-conservative faction, despite objections from several leading allies of the Supreme Leader who sit on the council, including Guardian Council Chairman Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati. | | | Khamenei expanded the authority of the Expediency Council, an appointive body whose longtime chairman, former president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, is a fixture of Iranian politics and invariably described as wily insider. |
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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. | | | Rafsanjani has been remarkably dismissive of the young -- he seems as deaf to their demands and presence as they are to the supposed benefits of his deal-making. |
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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. | | | Rafsanjani was succeeded in 1997 by the moderate Mohammed Khatami. |
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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. | | | After the fall of the Shah, Mr Rafsanjani, a conservative, co-founded the Islamic Republican Party. | | | Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a Shia Muslim cleric, is one of the most influential politicians in Iran. |
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| | The Iranian: News & Views |
| | Mr Rafsanjani, who first disclosed the Iran-Contra scandal, is being linked to at least six senior Iranian government officials who, during his presidency, ordered the secret execution of more than 80 dissidents, intellectuals and criminals. | | | As the political star of Mr Rafsanjani falls through the firmament so the revelations about his 10-year presidency and its nepotism are being uncovered. | | | Stories of Mr Rafsanjani's wealth have spread throughout Iran and were one reason for his failure to gain more than 25 per cent of the vote in last month's elections. |
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| | NPR : Q&A: Iran Presidential Election Preview |
| | Rafsanjani toyed with the idea of running this time for president and kept his name in the media for weeks before he finally announced his candidacy in mid-May. He is considered the frontrunner. | | | Was minister of culture and Islamic guidance when Rafsanjani was president. | | | Rafsanjani has said he would like to see the power of the clerics diminished, and relations improved between Iran and the United States. |
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