Word: hashemi
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...Iranian-Americans with high-level contacts in both Washington and Tehran made frantic calls to Iranian powerbrokers. "Clarify Iran's position or risk getting bombed," one told former Speaker of Parliament Ali Akbar Nateq-Nouri. "We should use this opportunity to create a common understanding," said Taha Hashemi, an adviser to Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei. "All this bitterness can yield a blessing...
...Once a functionary in the Revolutionary Guards and Ministry of Islamic Culture and Guidance, Ganji, 40, is now calling Iran's Islamic authorities to account in a way no other Iranian journalist has ever dared. His barbs helped take down one of the regime's sturdiest figures, Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, in last month's parliamentary elections...
This being Iran, a victory for the reformers may not be precisely what it seems: the unknown factor is former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. Desperate for a big name to head their slate, the hard-liners turned to Rafsanjani, despite the fact that his party, Servants of Construction, was already part of the pro-Khatami coalition. Rafsanjani leaped at the chance, hoping to win an easy Majlis seat and stage a political comeback, possibly as speaker, a post he held from 1980 to '89. While the President and Rafsanjani agree on issues like opening up to the West...
...decade through oil revenues, but collapsing crude prices combined with massive unemployment among a burgeoning youth population have made kick-starting the economy - with a large dose of Western investment - a critical priority, a fact that has moved even such stalwarts of the revolution as former president Ali Akhbar Hashemi Rafsanjani into the pro-Khatami coalition. That, of course, is a mixed blessing. "While Rafsanjani's influence could be a major factor in preventing a dangerous backlash by hard-liners after the election," says MacLeod, "he'd be likely to slow down the pace of political and social reform...