Former President Ali-Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani (left) says, “No one is closer to the Supreme Leader than I.” But he acknowledged they have had some disagreements over the years. The daily Farhikhtegan quoted him as saying, “I share with him my opinions and leave it to him to make the final decision as he is the Leader of society and I have to follow him.” According to the state news agency, Rafsanjani later described the killing of pedestrians in Nice by plowing a truck through a crowd as “a new and dangerous method of terror.” Actually, vehicles have been used before as murder weapons. In fact, in 2006, Mohammad-Reza Taheri-azar (right), an Iranian-born graduate of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, rented an SUV and drove it through an open campus area where students congregate. Surprisingly, no one was killed and only nine students were injured. He is now serving a 33-year prison sentence. He said he wanted to avenge the”killings of Muslims around the world.
