Effat Marashi ( fa, عفت مرعشی) is the widow of Iranian politician and former president
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani ( fa, اکبر هاشمی رفسنجانی, Akbar Hāshemī Rafsanjānī, born Akbar Hashemi Bahramani, 25 August 1934 – 8 January 2017) was an Iranian politician, writer, and one of the founding fathers of the Islami ...
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2009 protests
In 2009, during
election protests she was quoted as saying: "If people see that
he government
He or HE may refer to:
Language
* He (pronoun), an English pronoun
* He (kana), the romanization of the Japanese kana へ
* He (letter), the fifth letter of many Semitic alphabets
* He (Cyrillic), a letter of the Cyrillic script called ''He'' ...
has cheated, they should protest on the streets".
Personal life
Marashi married Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani in 1958. The couple had 5 children:
Fatemeh,
Mohsen
Muhsin (also spelled Mohsen, Mohsin, Mehsin, or Muhsen, ar, محسن) is a masculine Arabic given name. The first person known to have the name "Muhsin" was Muhsin bin Ali, the son of Ali ibn Abi Talib and Fatimah bint Muhammad.
Islamic term
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,
Faezeh,
Mehdi Mehdi () is a common Arabic masculine given name, meaning "rightly guided". People having the name Mehdi are in general originating from Iran mostly and sometimes India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Azerbaijan, France, Morocco, Algeria, ...
, and
Yasser.
Dispatch , A New Turn for Rafsanjani and His Family – Tehran Bureau , FRONTLINE , PBS
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References
1935 births
Living people
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
People from Kerman
Wives of presidents of Iran
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