The Return of the “Easy Man” in Iran?
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the moderate leader who reopened Iran to the West in the 1990s, disappeared from public view during the Ahmadinajad era. Now he’s back.
Middle Eastern affairs analyst and consultant
Shahriar Hendi is a member of the Victoria Branch of the CIC. He is currently a Middle Eastern affairs analyst and consultant working for Esquimalt Naval & Military Museum, the Royal United Services Institute- Vancouver Island, and the Centre for Asia Pacific Initiative at the University of Victoria. Formerly, he served as an international adviser to the National Iranian Oil Company and Iraq and Caucasus desk officer in the Iranian Foreign Service and Iranian Ministry of Energy. He holds a BA in political science from the State University of Tehran, an M.B.A from Harvard Business School-Overseas Branch and a BA in History from the University of Prince Edward Island.
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the moderate leader who reopened Iran to the West in the 1990s, disappeared from public view during the Ahmadinajad era. Now he’s back.