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Influential former Iranian leader Rafsanjani dead at age 82

TEHRAN, IRAN — Iranian state media says influential former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has died at age 82. Iranian media earlier said Rafsanjani been hos...
Iranian Former President Rafsanjani Arrives In Baghdad

TEHRAN, IRAN — Iranian state media says influential former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has died at age 82.

Iranian media earlier said Rafsanjani been hospitalized because of a heart condition.

Rafsanjani, who served as president from 1989 to 1997, is a leading politician who has often played kingmaker in the country’s turbulent politics. He supported President Hassan Rouhani.

Rafsanjani was head of the Expediency Council, a body that advises Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and in March he won a seat on the clerical body that will one day decide Khamenei’s successor.

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