Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, chairman of the Expediency Council and Hassan Rohani, head of the Council’s strategic research echoed each other’s concerns about the deepening divisions in Iran.
Hashemi Rafsanjani, who had aligned himself with reformists giving rise to the ire of the conservatives, in a meeting with principalist clergy of the parliament, spoke out against spreading of rumours and slandering, calling them “the scourge of national unity.”
ILNA reports that the Chairman of the Expediency Council has called for finding the real roots and causes of the differences in the society and confronting their divisive objectives.
