Yasser Hashemi Rafsanjani

Iranian politician

Yasser Hashemi Rafsanjani (Persian: یاسر هاشمی رفسنجانی; born 1971) is the youngest son of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the former president of Iran.

Biography

In 1989, he graduated from Nikan High School in Tehran, which was funded by a conservative religious group before Iran's revolution in order to provide students, from elementary to high school, with a non-secular education.

In the same year, he entered University of Tehran to study civil engineering but later changed his major. He has also studied in Belgium.^[1]

Yaser owns a 30-acre horse farm in Lavasan (known as Iran's Beverly Hills) which in 2003 was estimated to be worth around US$120 million. He runs a large import-export firm that trades in industrial machinery, baby food, and bottled water.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b Millionaire mullahs by Paul Klebnikov, 7 July 2003, The Iranian Originally printed in Forbes, Retrieved 15 May 2009

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

4th President of Iran (1989–1997)
Chairman of the Parliament (1980–1989)
Chairman of the Expediency Council (1989–2017)
Chairman of the Assembly of Experts (2007–2011)

Life and politics	Presidency Electoral history 1980 legislative election 1984 legislative election 1989 presidential election 1993 presidential election 2000 legislative election 2005 presidential election 2013 presidential election (campaign)
Political parties	Islamic Republican Party (1979–1987) Combatant Clergy Association (1988–2009)
Books	Collection of daily memos Tafsir Rahnama Amir Kabir
Related articles	Islamic Azad University 2009 election protests 2009 presidential election Iranian Green Movement Death and state funeral
Family	Effat Marashi (wife) Fatemeh Hashemi Rafsanjani (daughter) Mohsen Hashemi Rafsanjani (son) Faezeh Hashemi Rafsanjani (daughter) Mehdi Hashemi Rafsanjani (son) Yasser Hashemi Rafsanjani (son) Mohammad Hashemi Rafsanjani (brother)