Rafsanjani ist tot, die westlichen Illusionen bleiben
„Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was the original Mr. Moderation. Western observers saw the former Iranian president as a sort of Deng Xiaoping in clerical robes: a founder of the Islamic Republic who was destined to transform the country into a normal state. Rafsanjani, they thought, was too corrupt to be an ideologue. Yet Rafsanjani, who died Sunday at 82, consistently defied…