Yasser Hashemi Rafsanjani
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 the 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]
He is also a businessman. He runs a large export-import firm that includes baby food, bottled water and industrial machinery. According to Forbes, "he owns a 12 ha (30 acres) horse farm in the super-fashionable Lavasan neighborhood of north Tehran, where land goes for over $4 million per 1 ha (2.5 acres)."
Personal life
He is married to Maryam Salari and has a daughter named Lili.
References
- ↑ Millionaire mullahs by Paul Klebnikov, July 7, 2003, The Iranian Originally printed in Forbes, accessed 15-May-2009
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