Will Rafsanjani be removed?
The Secretary-General of the conservative Islamic Coalition Party, Mohammad Nabi Habibi, who takes an active part and enjoys influence in the economy, market and business of Iran, has differentiated former Iranian president Hashemi Rafsanjani from Mir-Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karrubi, whom he described as “intrigue leaders”. On the one hand, Iranian pro-governmental radical forces’ attack on Rafsanjani, who has been known as the second personality in the country for a period of 30 years, and his family, and on the other hand, the support provided to him by the reformists and part of conservatives create such a question “what is Rafsanjani’s current weight and how will his political fate end?”. Akbar Behramani, who is known as Hashemi Rafsanjani, was the chief adviser of former Iranian religious leader Imam Khomeini and the first religious personality who three months after the overthrow of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi’s government stated that he would participate in the policy of mull