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January 10, 2017

Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Was No Moderate

He supported terrorism and advocated using nuclear weapons against Israel.

Reports of the former Iranian president’s death have almost unanimously described him as the leader of a “moderate” faction within the Islamic Republic—one who wished for better relations with the West, paid only lip service to religious fanaticism, and could be induced through skillful diplomacy to move Tehran away from terrorism and anti-Americanism. None of this is true, writes Michael Rubin:

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