A prominent hardline clergyman says Ali-Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani should be booted off the Expediency Council, which he chairs. According to Hojatoleslam Jafar Shojouni (photo) Rafsanjani’s crime is his recent statement that Ayatollah Khomeini had considered banning the chant of “Death to America” before he died in 1989. Shojouni said Rafsanjani’s family “took up the flag of revolution under their name and became billionaires. They go against the Supreme Leader by endearing themselves to the Americans.”