Yasser Hashemi Rafsanjani
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Yasser Hashemi Rafsanjani (Persian: یاسر هاشمی رفسنجانی; born 1971) is the youngest son of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the former president of Iran.
Biography
[edit]In 1989, he graduated from Nikan High School in Tehran, which was funded by a conservative religious group before Iran's revolution in order to provide students, from elementary to high school, with a non-secular education.
In the same year, he entered University of Tehran to study civil engineering but later changed his major. He has also studied in Belgium.[1]
Yaser owns a 30-acre horse farm in Lavasan (known as Iran's Beverly Hills) which in 2003 was estimated to be worth around US$120 million. He runs a large import-export firm that trades in industrial machinery, baby food, and bottled water.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Millionaire mullahs by Paul Klebnikov, 7 July 2003, The Iranian Originally printed in Forbes, Retrieved 15 May 2009
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