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Zehne Abi, an Iran based blogger, says it is unbelievable thatRafsanjani's son position as General Manager (call it boss) of Tehran's metro has been confirmed. Zehne Abi writes everybody knows about corruption, mismanagment and even collapsing of one part of metro's roof under his rule!!
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“Everybody knows” a lot of things about Rafsanjani, like the fact that he’s a major investor in Las Vegas and owns several apartments in Zurich and Toronto. How much of it is true is a different matter.