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Over at Enduring America, a good source for Iran protest news, Scott Lucas flags this photo of Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a key swing player in Iranian politics, hanging out at a pro-regime rally:    

By , a former managing editor of Foreign Policy.
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Over at Enduring America, a good source for Iran protest news, Scott Lucas flags this photo of Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a key swing player in Iranian politics, hanging out at a pro-regime rally:

Over at Enduring America, a good source for Iran protest news, Scott Lucas flags this photo of Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a key swing player in Iranian politics, hanging out at a pro-regime rally:

 

 

Blake Hounshell is a former managing editor of Foreign Policy.

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