The daughter of Iran’s former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
... the fourth President of Iran. He was a member of the Assembly of Experts until he was eased out in 2011 He continues, for the moment, as Chairman of the Expediency Discernment Council. In 2005 he ran for a third term as president, ultimately losing to rival Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who was in Khamenei's graces back then. In 1980 Rafsanjani survived an assassination attempt, during which he was seriously injured. He has been described as a centrist and a
pragmatic conservativewithout all that much reason. He is currently being eased out of any position of actual influence or power and may be dead by the end of 2012...
was charged with carrying out propaganda activity against the country and blasphemy
...the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence to a deity, or sacred objects, or toward something considered sacred or inviolable. Some religions consider it to be a crime. In Pakistain you can commit blasphemy by looking cross-eyed at a Koran...
in social media comments, the judiciary said Sunday.
"The indictment... has been issued and referred to the court on the charges of propaganda activity against the system of the Islamic Theocratic
Republicof Iran
...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979...and blasphemy," Tehran’s chief prosecutor Ali Salehi said, according to the judiciary’s website Mizan Online.
The charges are connected to comments reportedly made by Faezeh Hashemi, 59, a former politician and a women’s rights
Hashemi is reported to have said that Iran’s demand for the Revolutionary Guards — the ideological arm of the country’s military — to be removed from a US terror list was "damaging" to the country’s "national interests," according to local media. Removal of the terror designation of the Guards is a key sticking point in negotiations over restoring Tehran’s frayed 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.
Hashemi also made separate comments concerning Khadija, the wife of the Prophet Mohammed. She is reported to have called Khadija a "businesswoman," showing that women can also engage in economic activity, and whose money the prophet spent.
She later said the comments had been a "joke... without any intention of causing insult," state news agency IRNA reported.
Hashemi’s late father was a relative moderate who advocated improved ties with the West and the United States.
| Yes, but during his term in office Iran’s scientists continued working toward designing a nuclear bomb and making enough uranium to build one in order to wipe out those uppity Jews in the Zionist entity. It’s just that life was pleasanter for Iran’s citizens when he was in charge. |
Republic."