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Rafsanjani says a reformist failure in Iran vote would be major loss

Published: 26 Feb 2016 - 01:02 pm | Last Updated: 30 Nov 2021 - 03:11 am

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, then head of Iran's Assembly of Experts, speaks during the assembly's biannual meeting in Tehran September 14, 2010. REUTERS, Caren Firouz

 

TEHRAN: Influential former president Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani   said a failure by reformists in Iranian elections on Friday would be a major loss for the country.

Asked what the impact would be of a reformist failure in the contests for parliament and the Assembly of Experts, he told Reuters: “It will be a major loss for the Iranian nation.”

(Writing by Parisa Hafezi, Editing by William Maclean)

Reuters