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The corruption conviction of Mehdi Hashemi Rafsanjani, son of Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani, has been upheld by an appellate court in Iran, according to judiciary spokesman Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei. The decision by the court was welcomed by conservative media, which have increasingly been at odds with Mehdi Hashemi Rafsanjani and Ayatollah Rafsanjani, a former president who is the head of the Expediency Council and one of the pillars of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
According to Mohseni-Ejei, the court upheld all three of Mehdi Hashemi's convictions, which were “embezzlement, bribery and security issues,” but added that Mehdi originally had a total of 12 charges, though some of them were for the same charge and therefore were combined.
