Desperate to show Unity, Iran's regime takes a critic's daughter 'hostage'
Time / By Azadeh Moaveni
05-Jan-2012

Iran's former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani found himself living the old cliche about revolutions devouring their own children, Tuesday, when a court in Tehran sentenced his daughter to six months in prison for "spreading propaganda" against the regime. The verdict against a highly visible member of the influential Rafsanjani clan — longtime kingmakers within Iran's political elite — is the latest sign of deepening political strife ahead of parliamentary elections to be held in March.

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