Former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has accused Iran's leaders of incompetence and ignorance, an opposition website reports.
So does former president Hashemi Rafsanjani, regarded as sympathetic to some of the opposition's grievances.
When Coke entered Iran in 1990, it teamed up with a relative of Iranian president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.
This propelled Mr Ahmadinejad, then a political novice, into a surprise second-round triumph against Hashemi Rafsanjani, a former president.
The ticket headed by Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a former two-term president, calls itself Kargozaran, or Servants of Construction.
Ahmadinejad foe Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a former president, appears unlikely to make one last presidential run, despite speculation to the contrary.
He dismissed the reported confessions of the accused, as did another influential ex-president, Ali Akhbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, according to Press TV.
Another prominent figure Hassan Rowhani, Iran's former nuclear negotiator and confidant to ex-President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, also put forward his name.
But other big names are in the mix, including Ahmadinejad's top aide Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei and former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.
But former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who has been in a power struggle with Khamenei, wasn't shown on the TV broadcast.
Iranian voters chose Ahmadinejad over former president Akhbar Hashemi Rafsanjani not merely because Rafsanjani was corrupt, but because of Ahmadinejad's outspoken extremism.
Behind closed doors, political parties are caught in the middle of a power struggle between Khamenei and former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.
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The pro-Ahmadinejad FARS news agency said Thursday that the daughter and brother of former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani were barred from leaving the country.
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Former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who has been in a power struggle with Khamenei, was not visible on the TV broadcast of the event.
Since the election little has been seen of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, an ex-president and a powerful supporter of Mir Hosein Mousavi, a defeated presidential candidate.
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The Ayatollah owes his rise to power to two men - his predecessor as Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and the previous president, Hashemi Rafsanjani.
Khamenei remained staunch in his defense of Ahmadinejad, saying his views were closer to the president's than to those of Hashemi Rafsanjani, a supporter of Moussavi.
The most notable of these is Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, an establishment heavyweight and former president who became an opposition figurehead after the contentious poll of 2009.
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Elections for municipal councils and an influential clerical body last December suggested that the moderates, led by a former president, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, were regaining some influence.
Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a former two-term president and the conservatives' star candidate, thought at first that he had squeaked in as the 28th name in Tehran.
Ironically, the man most adept at manipulating this hidden power structure is one of Iran's best-known characters--Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who has been named an ayatollah, or religious leader.
Since its establishment nearly 30 years ago, it has been a bastion of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a wealthy and influential former president and bitter rival of the incumbent, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
In one particularly troubling series of statements, Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the president of Iran from 1989 to 1997 and a senior ayatollah, let loose some rather unfortunate commentary regarding Israel.
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Former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, chairman of Iran's Assembly of Experts and a supporter of opposition leader Mir Hussein Moussavi, was quoted Saturday by the semi-official Iranian Labor News Agency.
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Now his friends at the Rafsanjan Pistachio Producers Cooperative, which represents the farms of former Iranian president Hashemi Rafsanjani and 50, 000 others, want Murphy to open the American pistachio market to them.
Behind the scenes, the former president, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, now head of the Assembly of Experts, another important constitutional body, is waging a campaign against Ahmadinejad and even the supreme leader himself.
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Even such notorious dealmakers as Hashemi Rafsanjani, a former president now opposed to Mr. Ahmadinejad, have made it clear they would not accept any formula that would leave the "landslide winner" in place.
Press TV also reported Sunday that five relatives of former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani were arrested for allegedly "inciting and encouraging rioters" in Tehran's Azadi (Freedom) Square on Saturday, the Web site reported.
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It was a crushing defeat for Mr Ahmadinejad's opponent, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a powerful former president (1989-97) and former speaker of the Iranian parliament who had seemed the favourite from the moment he decided to run.
Mr Ahmadinejad accused all three challengers of ganging up on him, insinuating that they were in the pay of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a cleric and former president, but has long been a behind-the-scenes power broker.
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