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Latest Iran Video: The Revelations of Hashemi Rafsanjani's Son

The Latest from Iran (10 November): Uncertainty and Propaganda

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This video emerged last week but we held off posting it until we could clarify what Mohsen Hashemi, the son of former President Hashemi Rafsanjani, was claiming.

At a "technical" meeting five days after the 12 June election, Mohsen Hashemi took the microphone to launch a fierce criticism of President Ahmadinejad. About six minutes into the clip, he claims that his family does not have a penny abroad, countering pre-election allegations (to be repeated in the Tehran trials) of Rafsanjani's corruption. Then he reveals....

Hashemi Rafsanjani's campaign manager in the 2000 Parliamentary elections was Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

That bit of information, offered publicly for the first year, puts the Rafsanjani-Ahmadinejad in a new light. The two men were politically, if not personally, close at one point but, for unknown reasons, fell out before the 2005 Presidential election.

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6IfolNII0U[/youtube]

Reader Comments (1)

The following video shows Rafsanjani Senior has three different bank accounts in German and Swiss banks. If this video is accurate, doesn’t Mohsen know about his father's bank accounts? Or does he think Germany and Switzerland are part of Iran and they are not considered abroad? Link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmT-qyXgoEY

November 11, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterMegan

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