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1st LD: Iran's ex-president Rafsanjani dies aged 82

Xinhua, January 9, 2017 Adjust font size:

Iran's influential cleric politician Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani died of heart disease on Sunday, local media reported.

Rafsanjani, 82, was hospitalized on Sunday due to a heart attack, but the medication attempts were not successful, reports said.

Born in Aug. 1934 in Iran's Bahreman, Rafsanjani was an influential politician, religious scholar and the confidant of Ayatollah Ruhollah Moosavi Khomeini, the late founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Endit