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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 427

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

In this file photo from February 18, 2016, Faezeh Hashemi, daughter of Iran's former president Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani, attends a campaign meeting for the reformists for the upcoming parliamentary elections at the Hejab hall in the capital Tehran. (Atta Kenare/AFP)
July 3, 2022, 5:37 pm
Daughter of Iran’s ex-president charged with propaganda, blasphemy
Faezeh Hashemi indicted for reportedly saying demand to remove IRGC from US terror list is ‘damaging’ to Tehran’s interests, referring to Mohammed’s daughter as a ‘businesswoman’
By AFP
A voter registers to cast her vote during the parliament elections at a polling station in Tehran, Iran, February 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
February 24, 2020, 3:39 am
Son of former Iran president says its democracy undermined from within
Yasser Rafsanjani says regime elements ‘outside the parliament’ preventing change in government, after latest vote sees record-low turnout, surge for hardliners
By ToI Staff and AP
Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi (CC BY 4.0, Mohammad Ali Marizad, Wikimedia Commons)
August 14, 2017, 4:01 pm
Iran conservatives tighten grip on top oversight body
Khamenei names hardliners, including Ahmadinejad, to policy-shaping Expediency Council
By AFP
An Iranian man checks the list of municipal council elections ahead of voting at a polling station in Tehran on May 19, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / Behrouz MEHRI
May 21, 2017, 4:02 pm
Iran reformists sweep Tehran council elections
Conservatives lose power in capital for the first time in 14 years, as relative moderates take all 21 seats
By AFP
Faezeh Hashemi, daughter of Iran's former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who died in January after suffering a heart attack, flashes a victory sign to the crowd from a bus during the funeral ceremony of his father in Tehran, Iran, January 10, 2017. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)
March 19, 2017, 8:54 am
Daughter of late Iran president gets 6-month prison sentence
Amid hard-line crackdown on reformists, Faezeh Hashemi Rafsanjani to be jailed for ‘spreading lies against the judiciary’
By Amir Vahdat
The Soumar cruise missile at its unveiling in March 2015. (YouTube screenshot)
February 2, 2017, 3:23 pm
Iran said to test second nuclear-capable missile
Launch reported by Die Welt apparently first voyage for Soumar missile, capable of hitting Israel and not covered by UN resolution
By Sue Surkes
US Secretary of State John Kerry sits with Chinese Ambassador Cheng Jingye, bottom left, US Energy Secretary of Energy Dr. Ernest Moniz, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini, British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at the Palais Coburg Hotel in Vienna, Austria, in the early morning hours of July 14, 2015. (US State Department)
January 10, 2017, 5:53 pm
Iran, world powers hold final nuclear talks before Trump takes office
Russians doubt US president-elect will keep to his election threat to tear up atomic accord
By Simon Sturdee
People arrive to mourn after the death of former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, at Jamaran mosque in Tehran, on January 8, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / ATTA KENARE)
January 10, 2017, 10:55 am
Thousands throng funeral for Iran’s Rafsanjani
White House sends unprecedented condolence message as father figure of moderate and reformist camps laid to rest
By Ali Noorani
Mourners gather around the coffin of former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani during a mourning ceremony at the Jamaran mosque in Tehran, on January 9, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / ATTA KENARE)
January 9, 2017, 3:07 pm
Mourning Rafsanjani, Iran frets over moderate movement’s future
A pivotal figure in foundation of Islamic Republic in 1979, former president hailed as leading reformist, counterweight to hardliners
By AFP and AP
Iranian former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani at a press conference in Tehran, December 21, 2015. (AFP Photo/Atta Kenare)
January 8, 2017, 8:23 pm
Iran’s ex-president Rafsanjani dies
Rafsanjani, 82, who led his country from 1989 to 1997, once spoke of a single Islamic bomb having the capacity to wipe out Israel
By AFP and ToI Staff
Ali Akbar Velayati, a top adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
October 21, 2016, 9:54 am
Argentina renews extradition call for Iranian ex-minister
Former FM Velayati is on Interpol wanted list for role in 1994 bombing of AMIA Jewish center in Buenos Aires
By AFP
Ali Akbar Velayati, a top adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
July 21, 2016, 2:35 am
Argentina seeks senior Iranian’s extradition for AMIA bombing
Investigating judge issues request after learning Ali Akbar Velayati is on a lecture tour in Southeast Asia
By AFP
Iranian Guardian Council head Ahmad Jannati delivering the Friday prayers sermon at Tehran University, October 16, 2009. (AFP Photo/Behrouz Mehri)
May 24, 2016, 11:46 am
Hardline cleric elected head of key Iran oversight body
Ultra-conservative Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati will lead clerical panel tasked with selecting the country’s next supreme leader
By AFP
An Iranian young boy looks on as women arrive to cast their vote in the second round of parliamentary elections at a polling station in the town of Robat Karim, some 40 kms southwest of the capital Tehran, April 29, 2016. (AFP/ATTA KENARE)
May 1, 2016, 3:18 pm
Iran’s new parliament has more women than clerics
Setting a record, women hold 17 out of 290 seats after second round of voting, while men of the cloth hold just 16
By AFP
Former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani registering his candidacy for president in May 2013. (AP/Ebrahim Noroozi)
February 29, 2016, 9:26 pm
Rafsanjani and Iran’s ‘House of Cards’
Once a key ally of Khamenei, then pushed out by conservatives, the former president returns in force to dominate Tehran politics
By Avi Issacharoff
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