Posts Tagged ‘Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani’

July 14th, 2010

The battle over Islamic Azad University

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A university campus has become the ground for a political battle between conservatives and moderates in Iran.  President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has pushed to take over Islamic Azad University, a private university, after it became a haven for political involvement in the Green Movement.  This action seems to be directed at former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, founder and chairman of the board of Azad, who “all but allied himself with the Green movement” this past year.

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