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Also Known As Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani • ʿAlī Akbar Hāshimī Rafsanjānī
Born August 25, 1934 • Iran
Died January 8, 2017 (aged 82) • Tehran • Iran
Title / Office president (1889-1997), Iran

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