伊朗前總統拉夫桑賈尼病逝享年82歲

Iranian state television has announced the death of former president and leading reformer Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.

afsanjani, 82 and suffering from heart ailments, died Sunday at a hospital north of Tehran.

Rafsanjani, who served as president from 1989 to 1997, was earlier seen as a top adviser to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the leader of the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

Rafsanjani's presidency saw the country seeking to rebuild its economy from the ruinous 1980-1988 war with neighboring Iraq. It was also marked by a series of cautious reforms which saw wider freedoms emerge, particularly in the country's tightly controlled media.

The government has announced three days of mourning, making Tuesday a public holiday for his funeral in Tehran.伊朗官方電視臺宣佈，前總統、改革派領導人阿克巴·哈什米·拉夫桑賈尼去世。

拉夫桑賈尼享年82歲，因心臟病星期天在德黑蘭以北的一家醫院去世。

拉夫桑賈尼從1989年到1997年期間擔任伊朗總統，還曾是1979年伊斯蘭革命領導人阿亞圖拉·阿里·哈梅內伊的最高顧問。

拉夫桑賈尼擔任總統期間，伊朗努力在1980-1988年兩伊戰爭結束後重建經濟，還出現了一系列謹慎的改革，讓伊朗實現了更多的自由，特別是在被嚴格管控的媒體領域。

伊朗政府宣佈三天的哀悼期，定星期二爲假日，在德黑蘭爲拉夫桑賈尼舉行葬禮。