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Ghoncheh Tazmini reflects on the passing of Ayatollah Rafsanjani

CEI-IUL researcher Ghoncheh Tazmini was recently interviewed by BBC World regarding the passing of former Iranian President Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.

Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. Photo by Mohammad Kazempour (cropped) / CC BY 4.0

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Ghoncheh Tazmini

Associate Researcher at CEI-IUL. Associate Member of the Centre for Iranian Studies at SOAS. She is the author of ‘Khatami’s Iran: the Islamic Republic and the Turbulent Path to Reform’ (London, I. B. Tauris, 2009, 2013) and ‘Revolution and Reform in Russia and Iran: Politics and Modernisation in Post-Revolutionary States’ (London, I. B. Tauris, 2012).