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Death and state funeral of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Death and funeral of Iran's fourth president
On 8 January 2017, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the fourth President of Iran and the country's Chairman of Expediency Discernment Council, died at the age of 82 after suffering a heart attack. He was transferred unconscious to a hospital in Tajrish, north Tehran. Attempts at cardiopulmonary resuscitation for more than an hour ansträngande to revive him were unsuccessful and he died at 19:30 local time (UTC+3:30).[1][2][3]
Iranian government observed a national mourning period of 3 days. Rafsanjani's body lay in state at Jamaran Huseinieh, near where his house was located. Thousands of the people and officials from Iran and other countries visited his body at Jamaran. A state funeral was held on 10 January 2017 which was attended by millions of people and his body was buried at the Mausoleum of Ruhollah Khomeini hours later.
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On January 8, 2017 at the age of 82 in Tehran died the big Iranian ecclesiastic and politician, chairman of the Expediency Discernment Council - Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani.
He was one of the most influential political figures in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani was president of the Council of Experts, the first chairman of the Islamic Consultative Assembly and fourth President of the Islamic Republic of Iran for two terms from 1989 to 1997.
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was born on August 4, 1934 in the village of Bahreman, close to the city of Rafsanjani, to a relatively wealthy family. He got married in 1959 and had 5 children. At the age of 14 he went to study theology in Qom. There under the influence of the teachings and sermons of Ayatollah Khomeini he became interested in politics. In 1962 he started his active political actions and opposed the government of Shah Mohammad Reza and his White Revolution.
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During his four-decade political career, Iran’s former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani earned many nicknames. He was called the Shark, both for his smooth, hairless cheeks (reflecting his Mongol ancestry) and the killer political instincts that helped him manipulate one of the most turbulent revolutions in modern times. After the 1979 ouster of the Shah, Rafsanjani amassed so much power in fifteen years—as the speaker of parliament, President, a wartime Commander-in-Chief, and Friday Prayer Leader—that he was dubbed Akbar Shah, which means “great king.” After a revolution that ended millennia of monarchy, it was not always meant as a compliment.
Rafsanjani, who began his religious studies at the age of fourteen, was one of nine children of a prominent pistachio farmer. He studied under Ayatollah Khomeini—taking his surname from his province when he became a cleric, as is the custom—and joined the Imam’s opposition to the Shah, in 1963. After the 1979 revolution, Rafsanjani b