“[Rafsanjani’s] most significant legacy, however, will be of ingraining a mindset of moderation and aversion to radicalism in Iran and the region. While many in the West did not comprehend this in his time, costing him dearly politically, he passed the torch to a new generation in Tehran, making it still possible to right past wrongs and reach the breakthroughs he long fought for but never lived to see.”
“Death of Iran’s Rafsanjani: Ex-president was a man of peace,” Seyed Hossein Mousavian, CNN, January 10, 2017.
