Iran court upholds sentence of Rafsanjani's son
An appellate court has upheld the corruption case against Mehdi Hashemi, son of Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani.
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.
