Chairman of the Experts Assembly Hashemi Rafsanjani speaks in Iran
Chairman of the Experts Assembly and Iran's former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani speaks during the inaugural session of a one-day seminar entitled 'National Unity, Strategies and Policies' in Tehran, Iran on November 12, 2007. Rafsanjani stressed unity as the main element of solving problems. (UPI Photo/Mohammad Kheirkhah)
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