What province did he represent in the Assembly of Experts?
Hamadan
Tehran
Yazd
Isfahan
Answer
Hamadan is a province in the west of Iran, and is the birthplace of Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani. Rafsanjani represented Hamadan in the Assembly of Experts, which is a body that selects the supreme leader of Iran. He was a member of the assembly from 1980 until 2016, and was its chairman from 1989 to 2005. Rafsanjani was also the president of Iran from 1989 to 1997.
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