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Iran’s Khamenei honours Rafsanjani as ‘companion of struggle’
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleIran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei paid tribute to Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the former president who died on Sunday, as a “companion of struggle,” despite differences between them.
“The loss of my companion of struggle, whose cooperation with me dated back 59 years, is difficult and overwhelming,” Khamenei says in a statement quoted by the state broadcaster’s website.
“The different opinions and interpretations at time in this long period could never entirely break up the friendship” between us, he adds.
— AFP
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