“With what is happening in the U.S. and the possible instability that is going to come in U.S. policy you needed a voice of reason and pragmatism that had some heft to it. He was that voice. Losing that voice is going to make it more likely that any mishap or miscalculation by the Trump team will beget a more unreasonable, more radical, more potentially destructive response by the Iranian regime.”
Abbas Milani — Director of the Iranian Studies program at Stanford University
“Several commentators have interpreted the (1988) prison massacres as part of the power struggle by Rafsanjani’s faction to remove Montazeri as successor to the dying Khomeini. It is alleged they urged the killings in the knowledge that the more humane heir-apparent would earn the Supreme Leader’s wrath by objecting. This would make Rafsanjani a prime suspect.”
Geoffrey Robertson QC
Iran’s former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
January 10 2017 — Former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani died on Sunday (January 8 2017) at the age of 82. A U.S. State Department official described Rafsanjani as a “prominent figure” throughout the history of the Islamic Republic of Iran. “We send our condolences to his family and loved ones,” the official said in a statement. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today Continue reading
