Word: rafsanjani
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tehran radio, monitored in Bahrain, broadcast a threat by Hashemi Rafsanjani, speaker of Iran's parliament, to "uproot the Saudi rulers" and seize the kingdom's vast oil wealth for Islam...
When the talk in Tehran is not of the war, it is about Khomeini's successor. The Ayatullah now plays no visible role in public life. By most accounts, Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, 52, the pragmatic Speaker of the Parliament, is the leading candidate to take over. At this point, it is unclear what impact his alleged role in the U.S.-Iran arms deal will have on the succession. "It's a time bomb ticking away," says one diplomat. While Iran's council of experts designated Ayatullah Hussein Ali Montazeri, 64, the senior cleric from Qum, as the formal successor...
According to Rafsanjani, the Americans "meant to say that the Soviets intended to wage a war against...
Parliament speaker Hashemi Rafsanjani declared in his weekly prayer sermon at Tehran University that the purpose of the statements by the U.S. envoys was to get Iran into a war with the Soviet Union and divert its forces from the war with Iraq...
...Rafsanjani said the American officials, whom he did not name, showed the Iranians "a satellite photograph" marked with lines near the Caspian showing areas where the Americans said Soviet forces planned to enter Iran...