Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani an influential politician and close ally to the Father of the Islamic Revolution the late Imam Khomeini in both pre and post-Islamic Revolution days and also Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei died on Sunday due to cardiac arrest in a Tehran hospital at the age of 82.
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Ayatollah Khomeini appear at a press conference at the Refah School. Tehran, February 5, 1979
TEHRAN, IRAN: Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto meets Iranian President Ali Akbar Hachemi-Rafsandjani (R) 07 November in Tehran. Benazir Bhutto denied any rivalry between her country and Iran for influence in their common neighbor Afghanistan. The Pakistani prime minister arrived here 06 November for a three-day official visit. AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images)
President Hassan Rouhani appeared at Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani’s mourning ceremony in Jamaran Husseiniya and extended condolences to the Supreme Leader.