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Ardakan

أردكان

City in Yazd Province, Iran.

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Persia & Central Asia
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Mohammad Khatami· Ruhollah Khatami

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Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani· Mahmoud Ahmadinejad· Mohammad Khatami· Ruhollah Khatami

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  • Wikidata
  • iDAI.gazetteer (German Archaeological Institute place gazetteer)
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islam.museum contributors. “Ardakan”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/ardakan/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-12.

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Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (1934–2017) was an Iranian Shia cleric and politician and a founding figure of the Islamic Republic. Trained at the Qom seminary under Borujerdi and Khomeini, he was speaker of parliament from 1980 to 1989 and acting commander-in-chief during the war with Iraq, then president of Iran from 1989 to 1997; he chaired the Expediency Discernment Council until his death and the Assembly of Experts from 2007 to 2011. Born at Bahreman near Rafsanjan, he died in Tehran on 8 January 2017.