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Iran opposition defies ban on protesting again
Sep 19th, 2009 - Boston
TEHRAN - Hard-line supporters of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad clashed yesterday with protesters who defied a ban on opposition demonstrations to stage the first major street protests in two months...
Protests, boycott mark ceremony for Iran leader
Aug 4th, 2009 - Philly
Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, endorsed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for a second term seven weeks after the disputed reelection that continues to roil the nation. Dozens of officials...
Rafsanjani defies Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
Jul 17th, 2009 - Times Online
Iran’s most influential powerbroker defied the Supreme Leader and used Friday prayers to declare the Islamic Republic “in crisis” yesterday as tens of thousands of protesters staged the largest show of dissent in weeks.
Ex-Iranian President Criticizes Ayatollah
Jun 9th, 2009 - Washington Post
TEHRAN, June 9 -- Three days before Iranians go to the polls to elect a president, one of the country's most powerful clerics, Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, issued an...
Rafsanjani calls for 'clean' election, in letter to Leader
Jun 9th, 2009 - Press TV
After a series of accusations by the incumbent Iranian president, Chairman of Iran's Expediency Council Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani asks the Leader of the Islamic Revolution to take necessary action.

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Faezeh Rafsanjani Daughter of Fmr Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
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Ayatollah Rafsanjani delivers sermon, Mousavi supporters chant; "Death to Russia, Death to China."
TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- One of Iran's most powerful clerics, Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, has called on the Iranian government to release those people arrested following last month's disputed presidential election. Rafsanjani remains ...
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iran protest...valiasr street..Faeze Hashemi Rafsanjani speech
Faeze Hashemi Rafsanjani ( doughter of Akbar rafsanjani ) came among people and mede a speech... protesters was came in front of national radio & television station in valiasr street 5pm to 8pm....16 june
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Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (Persian: ??? ???? ????? ???????? Ali Akbar H?shem? Rafsanj?n?, Hashemi Bahramani (????? ???????); born August 25, 1934) is an influential Iranian politician, writer 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, monitoring, and dismissing the Supreme Leader of Iran) and Chairman of the Expediency Discernment Council of Iran (an unelected administrative assembly that resolves legislative conflicts between the Majlis (Parliament) and the Council of Guardians).

Rafsanjani served as President of Iran from 1989 to 1997. In 2005 he ran for a third term in office, placing first in the first round of elections but ultimately losing to rival Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the run-off round of the 2005 election. He was also elected as the Chairman of Iranian parliament in 1980 and served till 1989. In 1980, Rafsanjani survived an assassination attempt, during which he was seriously injured.