Tuesday 13 February 2007

Hashemi’s Different Domestic Diplomacy

Hashemi’s Different Domestic Diplomacy
Hamid Ahadi - 2007.02.13













Three days after Ahmadinejad cancelled his planned trip to the holy city of Qom, former president Hashemi Rafsanjani’s two-day trip to that city to meet with its highest religious authorities caught the attention of political commentators. The head of the Islamic Republic’s Expediency Council met with almost all of the grand ayatollahs, except for Ayatollah Montazeri, former successor to Khomeini and the most prominent Shiite critic of the Islamic Republic.

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