Hashemi

SNOW: Woodwell new recalls Hashemi's trip to the U.S. in March 2001 and a testy exchange featured in Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 911."

CNN Transcript Feb 28, 2006 2006

Interior Ministry spokesman, Major General Adel Daham, told a news conference confessions by suspects identified as Hashemi's bodyguards linked the vice president to killings and attacks on Iraqi government and security officials.

Reuters: Press Release 2011

Interior Ministry spokesman, Major General Adel Daham, told a news conference confessions by suspects identified as Hashemi's bodyguards linked the vice president to killings and attacks on Iraqi government and security officials.

msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines 2011

Interior Ministry spokesman, Major General Adel Daham, told a news conference confessions by suspects identified as Hashemi's bodyguards linked the vice president to killings and attacks on Iraqi government and security officials.

Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

To counteract his disruptive tone, 'moderates' such as Hashemi are brought to the forefront; if the invitation to negotiate is accepted, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's aggressive stance and his poor international image will be weakened.

Omid Memarian: Grand Bargain, Rafsanjani Style 2008

Reformists like onetime president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani are gradually being pushed out of the political arena.

It's Time to Bypass Iran's 'Supreme Leader' Mehdi Khalaji 2012

There was no reaction from the Kurds, but a spokesman for the regional government's president told a local TV station that Mr. Hashemi was "a dear guest" under their protection.

Iraq Leader Warns of Coalition's End Sam Dagher 2011

In another development that could fan Sunni-Shiite tensions, Mr. Maliki said he had assembled a file three years ago that covers more alleged violations by Mr. Hashemi during the height of the sectarian warfare between 2005 and 2007 that he has held off on revealing it "for the sake of the political process."

Iraq Leader Warns of Coalition's End Sam Dagher 2011

The once-humble, unremarkable Khamenei—who was given the office of supreme leader in 1989 by the once-great Don Corleone of clerical politics, Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani who assumed Iran's presidency that same year—has become the undisputed ruler of Iran.

Iran's Act of War Reuel Marc Gerecht 2011

Such massacres go back almost 20 years, to an era of Iranian politics when pragmatism supposedly supplanted radicalism under the presidency of Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.

When Tehran Attacks Emanuele Ottolenghi 2011