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Rafsanjani Loses Key Iranian Post

Former Iranian president and government critic Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has given up his position atop the council that chooses or dismisses Iran’s supreme leader. Rafsanjani supported opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi in 2009’s presidential election and has been a target of Iranian hardliners. He said he gave up the post to “avoid division.” He is succeeded by moderate conservative Ayatollah Mohammad Reza Mahdavi Kani.

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Ayatollah Mohammad Reza Mahdavi Kani: “The president-elect is the president of the entire Iranian nation,” said Kani, according to a June 16 story in the Tehran Times. “The most essential issue for the country, today and every day, is maintaining unity and following the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution.” Former Prime Minister Kani is head of the conservative Combatant Clergy Association, not to be confused with the pro-reform Association of Combatant Clerics.

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