It has been three days since Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani passed away, but Iranian media is still buzzing with coverage of the former two-time president. If anything, the wave of reactions to the death of the Expediency Council chairman doesn’t seem to be subsiding.
On Jan. 11, one day after Rafsanjani’s funeral — which saw at least 2.5 million mourners on the streets of Tehran — Iranian newspapers’ front pages were all dedicated to the sudden death of one of the “pillars” of the Islamic Republic.
