Rafsanjani's son enters prison amid media circus - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Arash Karami

Arash Karami

Aug 11, 2015

Mehdi Hashemi Rafsanjani, son of former President Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani, goes to Evin prison in the north of Tehran, Aug. 9, 2015. — MEHR NEWS AGENCY

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Former Iranian president and election front-runner Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani casts his ballot in the Iranian presidential election in Tehran June 17, 2005. Iran holds presidential election on Friday under international scrutiny for its nuclear programme, its rocky relationship with the United States and by observers keen to see which direction the Islamic Republic will move in now that the presidency of reformist Mohammad Khatami has ended. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj CJF/DY - RTREON2

Iran court upholds sentence of Rafsanjani's son

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Iran's former president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani delivers his speech during Friday prayers in Tehran April 24, 2009. Rafsanjani urged the United States on Friday to stop threatening Iran with more sanctions if it wanted to hold talks with the Islamic state over its disputed nuclear work. REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl (IRAN RELIGION POLITICS) - RTXEBPS

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Rohollah Faghihi

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Former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani casts his ballot in front of a picture of the Islamic republic's late founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini at a polling station in Tehran on March 2, 2012. Iran voted for a new parliament in the first nationwide elections since a bitterly contested 2009 poll that returned President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to power, posing a new test of his support among conservatives. AFP PHOTO/STR (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/GettyImages)

Rafsanjani's children targeted by Iran judiciary

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