Hachemi Rafsandjani

Ali Akbar Hachemi Rafsandjani was president of the Iranian republic August 3rd 1989 at August 3rd 1997.

It was born in 1935 in a family from easy farmers and followed religious courses to Qom, the Holy City of the Chiisme, during a dozen years, including six pennies the teaching of the Ayatollah Khomeiny, of which it became one of most faithful seconds the.

Actually, little impassioned by the study of the comments of the Coran, it succeeds in thereafter carrying out face a career of political agitator, for whom it will be stopped with four recoveries and of business man, thanks to which it realizes, between 1960 and 1976, of the real estate transactions with Qom which bring back beautiful profits to him. It becomes also one of the most important wholesalers in Pistache S of Iran and was regarded as the richest man of the country; its personal fortune is estimated at several billion dollars.

In 1979, before the fall of the Shah, being presented in the form of a representative of the small shopkeepers of the bazaar, who gave him since the nickname of Akbar Chah (king Akbar), it deceived the international journalists, in particular, the French journalists, by affirming that the single goal of the movement was to found a democratic republic.

Political career

During the conflict with Iraq (1980 - 1988), it was the manager of the ayatollah Khomeiny in powerful Conseil of the war. It was reproached to him besides for having unnecessarily prolonged the hostilities after the reconquest of the territories invaded by the Iraq.

From March 1983 at June 1986, it undertakes with the France a subtle play between secret negotiations and terrorist pressures, as the attack of Beirut in 1983 which killed 60 French soldiers, play which will lead to make fold the French government. This one will end up delivering, as from June 1986, 100.000 shells via the Luchaire company, will expel in November Massoud Radjavi which will take refuge in Iraq, and will pour with the Iranian government, a check of 330 million dollars, representing part of the Iranian participation in the company of uranium enrichment Eurodif.

In March 1988, Khomeiny names it commander-in-chief of the Iranian armies, and in April it then imposes the cease-fire with the Iraq.

In spring 1989, it launches calls to terrorism, before contradicting them mollement. The May 5th, it had invited the Palestinians to kill out of the Americans, the British or the French , then made ravel 10.000 men-at-arms of the Lebanese Hezbollah to Baalbek at the time of the Jour of Jerusalem . At the beginning of August 1989, it offers its assistance to accelerate the release of the Western hostages to the Lebanon, after having negotiated a gesture with the the United States directly on the telephone with the president George Bush - the Iranian assets with the the United States, blocked since the death of the shah in 1980, were assembled then to 12 billion dollars -, it orders with the Hezbollah to suspend any execution of hostages.

The July 28th 1989, it is elected president of the Iranian Republic then re-elected until August 1997, on a programme of opening and reforms against those which one called then the irreducible , whose leader was Mohtachemi. He affirmed then: One does not build a stopping with slogans… Iran always makes come its corn, its meat, its spare parts, its vehicles and its experts from abroad! . Often in conflict with the preserving Parliament, this one returned certain collaborators of Rafsandjani, like the Minister for the culture Mohammad Khatami in 1992 and the Minister for the Economy Mohsen Nourbakhsh in 1994. It did everything to torpedo the bills of the reformers since 1997. Its close relations explain that the Iranian company is nun and that the minimum which one can require of the private bills, and in particular of reforms, is that they do not carry not reached to Islam, republic and Islam are two inseparable principles and the Iranians would not conceive that they are separated.

Many Iranians reproach him his decisional role in simple works of the Islamic Republic, her indifference with the problems of human rights, and especially the reputation of mixing business and politics which weighs on its family, to start with its sons.

Candidate with the presidential election of 2005, it arrives at the head of the first turn the June 17th with 21% of the voices. He faces the islamist conservative Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (20%) at the time of the second turn the June 24th but loses (35%) with the profit of the conservative (65%). This defeat is most important of its career.

Rafsandjani is currently president of the Conseil of understanding and advises the Guide of the revolution on the subjects of national policy.

In December 2006, Rafsandjani is elected as a representative of Teheran to the Assemblée of the experts. He is elected by his pars with the presidency of the Parliament on September 4th, 2007.

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