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.
President Hassan Rouhani appeared at Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani’s mourning ceremony in Jamaran Husseiniya and extended condolences to the Supreme Leader.