Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani — Dead at 82

Rafsanjani was a so-called moderate.

A lot of good he did, pfft.

From Austin Bay, at Instapundit, "SHED NO TEARS: Iran’s Rafsanjani is dead. He died of a heart attack."

And FWIW, at NYT:

The NYT obituary for Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani https://t.co/PUsrefuYnJ

— The New York Times (@nytimes) January 8, 2017