Word: hashemi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Arab allies, repatriation to Iraq of about 100,000 Iraqi Shi'ite Muslim refugees of Iranian descent, and withdrawal of Iraqi forces from every square foot of Iranian territory. Iran has demanded as much as $150 billion in war reparations from Iraq, although Majlis (parliament) Speaker Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani pointedly noted that Iran would abandon its claim to reparations if Iraq were converted into an Iranian-style Islamic republic...
...against Iran. Last week Khomeini said publicly: "I warn the governments of the region to deal with us according to the tenets of Islam. Otherwise, if their behavior should require the enforcement of Koranic injunctions, we shall enforce God's command." Added Majlis (parliament) Speaker Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani: "We shall stop at nothing in order to gain our legitimate rights, and the fall of Saddam Hussein is our greatest right." In a particularly revealing gesture, 116 Majlis members sent a congratulatory message to Khomeini, noting that it was time to push for the establishment of an Islamic republic...
...Then, as the televised parade approached the dignitaries who had assembled in the square, a Soviet flag was mysteriously thrown down in front of the marchers. Before the troops could be halted and a startled official could retrieve it, the red banner was trampled upon as well. Hojjatoleslam Ali Hashemi Rafsanjani, the speaker of the Iranian parliament, later apologized for the desecration of the Soviet emblem, saying it had all been "a plot to sabotage the revolution's diplomacy...
...Islamic regime moved swiftly to fill the vacuum created by the two earlier deaths. Majlis (parliament) Speaker Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Chief Justice Ayatullah Moussavi Ardabeli jointly assumed the presidency until new elections are held, at the latest by Oct. 19, to fill the vacancy. They named another cleric and Khomeini intimate, Interior Minister Ayatullah Mohammed Reza Mahdavi Kani, 50, as Prime Minister; as one of his first tasks Kani pledged to improve security. The three, who complete Banisadr's five-man hit list, also vowed to press on with a purge aimed at eliminating their opposition...
...council's chief member, Supreme Court President Ayatullah Mohammed Beheshti, has gradually emerged as the strongest of the three, by virtue of his leadership of the clergy-controlled Islamic Republic Party (I.R.P.), the dominant political party in Iran. The other council members were Parliamentary Speaker Hojatolislam Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Prime Minister Mohammed Ali Raja'i, who has assumed Banisadr's presidential functions until the July elections, when an I.R.P. candidate is expected...