Iran's ex-president Rafsanjani dies aged 82
                 Source: Xinhua | 2017-01-09 01:24:03 | Editor: huaxia

This file photo taken on December 21, 2015 shows Iranian former president and head of the Expediency Council, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani showing his ID as he registers his candidacy for the upcoming Assembly of Experts elections at the interior ministry in Tehran. (Xinhua/AFP Photo)

TEHRAN, Jan. 8 (Xinhua) -- Iran's influential cleric politician Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani died of heart disease on Sunday, local media reported.

Rafsanjani, 82, was hospitalized on Sunday due to a heart attack, but the medication attempts were not successful, reports said.

Born in Aug. 1934 in Iran's Bahreman, Rafsanjani was an influential politician, religious scholar and the confidant of Ayatollah Ruhollah Moosavi Khomeini, the late founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

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Iran's ex-president Rafsanjani dies aged 82

Source: Xinhua 2017-01-09 01:24:03

This file photo taken on December 21, 2015 shows Iranian former president and head of the Expediency Council, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani showing his ID as he registers his candidacy for the upcoming Assembly of Experts elections at the interior ministry in Tehran. (Xinhua/AFP Photo)

TEHRAN, Jan. 8 (Xinhua) -- Iran's influential cleric politician Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani died of heart disease on Sunday, local media reported.

Rafsanjani, 82, was hospitalized on Sunday due to a heart attack, but the medication attempts were not successful, reports said.

Born in Aug. 1934 in Iran's Bahreman, Rafsanjani was an influential politician, religious scholar and the confidant of Ayatollah Ruhollah Moosavi Khomeini, the late founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

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