Iran’s former president, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, died on January 8. (Reuters/Raheb Homavandi) Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the pragmatic centrist former president of Iran, who died Jan. 8 after a heart attack, was one of the pillars of Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution and the establishment of the Islamic Republic. Before the death of the leader of … Continue reading What does the death of Rafsanjani mean for Iran’s political landscape?