Serving the Leviathan
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani’s life and death highlight what’s at stake in Iran today.
Siavush Randjbar-Daemi is lecturer in Iranian history at the University of Manchester. His forthcoming book, The Quest for Authority in Iran: The Presidency From Revolution to Rouhani, will be published by I. B. Tauris later this year.
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani’s life and death highlight what’s at stake in Iran today.