Iran’s Rafsanjani dies, sources say

  09 January 2017    Read: 1373
Iran’s Rafsanjani dies, sources say
Sources in Iran report that the country’s head of Expediency Council Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has died.
The 82-year-old former president was hospitalized in the afternoon of January 8 as he suffered a heart stroke.

Tweets quoted Hossein Marashi, a close relative of the ayatollah as having confirmed the news of Rafsanjani’s death.

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