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    Akbar Rafsanjanī

    Iranian politician

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  1. Akbar Rafsanjanī. Ali Akbar Hashemi Bahramani Rafsanjani ( Persian: علی اکبر هاشمی بهرمانی رفسنجانی, romanized : ʿAlī Akbar Hāshemī Bahramānī Rafsanjānī; 25 August 1934 – 8 January 2017) was an Iranian politician and writer who served as the fourth president of Iran from 1989 to 1997. One of the founding ...

  2. Jan 8, 2017 · Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was a founding father of the Iranian revolution who went on to serve as the country's president between 1989 and 1997 and remained a powerful figure until his death on 8 ...

  3. Jan 9, 2017 · During his four-decade political career, Iran’s former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani earned many nicknames. He was called the Shark, both for his smooth, hairless cheeks (reflecting his ...

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  5. On 8 January 2017, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the fourth President of Iran and the country's Chairman of Expediency Discernment Council, died at the age of 82 after suffering a heart attack. He was transferred unconscious to a hospital in Tajrish, north Tehran. Attempts at cardiopulmonary resuscitation for more than an hour trying to revive him ...

    • 9–11 January 2017
  6. Jan 9, 2017 · Iran's former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has died after a decades-long career in the ruling elite, where his moderate views were not always welcome but his cunning guided him through revolution, war and the country's turbulent politics.

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  7. Jan 8, 2017 · TEHRAN, Iran - Former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a wily political survivor and multimillionaire mogul who remained among the ruling elite despite moderate views, died Sunday. He ...

  8. Jan 9, 2017 · Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was born in 1934 in south-eastern Iran to a family of farmers. He studied theology in the holy city of Qom with Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini - who went on to lead the ...

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