Mohammad Hashemi Rafsanjani

Mohammad Hashemi Rafsanjani
Deputy Leader of Executives of Construction Party
In office
4 December 1996 – 4 May 2011
Leader Gholamhossein Karbaschi
Mohammad Ali Najafi
Preceded by None
Succeeded by Hossein Marashi
Leader of Executives of Construction Party
In office
4 March 1996 – 4 December 1996
Preceded by None
Succeeded by Gholamhossein Karbaschi
Head of Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB)
In office
21 July 1984 – 21 July 1994
Preceded by Sadeq Ghotbzadeh
Succeeded by Ali Larijani
Personal details
Born December 9, 1940 (1940-12-09) (age 71)
Kerman, Iran
Alma mater UC Berkeley
Religion Twelver Shia Islam

Mohammad Hashemi Rafsanjani (also Mohammad Hashemi) is an Iranian politician who has been a member of the Expediency Discernment Council since 1997. Before that he served as vice president in charge of executive affairs during the presidency of his older brother, Hojatoleslam Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, and later under President Mohammad Khatami. Before that he was the head of Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting for 10 years.[1][2] Mohammad Hashemi is an alumnus of UC Berkeley.

Unlike his brother Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani he is not an Islamic cleric.

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