#IslamicRepublic

People (2)

• Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was a senior Iranian cleric and politician who served as Speaker of Parliament during the Iran-Contra arms-for-hostages negotiations, where he is identified as the principal Iranian official who publicly broke the story in November 1986; he later served as President of Iran 1989-1997 and is a central figure in the October Surprise and Iran-Contra subjects.
• Mehdi Karrubi Mehdi Karrubi was an Iranian cleric and senior political figure who served as Speaker of the Iranian Parliament (1989-1992, 2000-2004) and later claimed that he had knowledge of negotiations between the Reagan campaign and Iranian representatives in 1980 that delayed the hostage release; he was later placed under house arrest following the 2009 Green Movement.