Hashemi Rafsanjani's Daughter: We Could Not Find My Father's Will

Fatemeh Hashemi, the daughter of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, stated that after her father's passing, individuals went to his office at the Expediency Council and emptied the safe where he kept 'important documents.' She also reported the disappearance of her father's 'second will.' On Thursday (October 5), she made these remarks in an interview with the Tehran-based newspaper 'Jahan San'at.' She said, 'At the time of my father's death, gentlemen came and took everything that was there and not there.' According to Hashemi, the former head of the Expediency Council kept 'important documents in the safe and several drawers, and when I went there to bring my father's belongings home, I found empty drawers and nothing was there.' Fatemeh Hashemi further mentioned the disappearance of her father's second will, stating, 'We were looking for Ayatollah Hashemi's will and thought it might be there, so we went to his office to check the drawers and the safe, but we found the drawers and the safe empty.' She noted that the will read by Mohsen Hashemi a few days after Rafsanjani's death was 'old and related to the year 2000,' and he had written that 'I will write the next will.' Fatemeh Hashemi added, 'I clearly remember that about 4 or 5 years ago, my father and my mother were writing a will, and now we are very eager to know where that will is.' In another part of her statements, she referred to the travel bans imposed on several members of the Hashemi family, saying, 'We have not yet received an answer regarding the reason for this issue, but some speculate that perhaps there are important and confidential information from the regime with us, and that is why some of us have been banned from traveling.' Fa'ezeh Hashemi Rafsanjani, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani's second daughter, also stated on October 1 to the 'Shahrvand' newspaper: 'Five members of our family have been banned from traveling, or we are constantly summoned to court.' She spoke about the 'harassment' the Hashemi family has faced since his death, saying, 'I previously did not have as many cases; I had some, but in the past four or five months, I have been constantly receiving summonses, and when we go, they are mostly false reports and not true, and it seems that this matter wants to continue and never ends.' Four years ago, a court in Tehran sentenced Fa'ezeh Hashemi Rafsanjani to six months in prison and a five-year ban from political activities and media presence. The charge against her was 'propaganda against the regime,' which was raised after an interview with the online website Rooz Online. Mehdi Hashemi, another child of Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani, was also sentenced to ten years in prison on June 11, 2015, and has been serving his sentence for over two years. Fatemeh and Fa'ezeh Hashemi have both criticized Rouhani's government, which they have previously expressed. Fatemeh Hashemi told 'Jahan San'at' about the lack of female ministers in the eleventh and twelfth governments, saying, 'Surely we cannot believe Rouhani's famous statement in the parliament that he wished to appoint a female minister but could not.' She added, 'I do not have accurate information about the behind-the-scenes events, but what I understand from the appearance of the matter is that Mr. Rouhani himself did not want to introduce and appoint a female minister and perhaps concluded that there is no suitable woman for his government ministries.' Fa'ezeh Hashemi also previously mentioned Hassan Rouhani as one of the managers who was a member of the 'purification committee' at the beginning of the revolution, firing university professors, and currently has the same 'security perspective.' Fa'ezeh Hashemi continued, 'For example, we currently have a minister who creates files for his managers before appointing them,' and added that 'informants' have been placed in the ministry to report on the performance of subordinate managers. Hashemi added that she is unwilling to speak further on this matter, but implicitly stated that Hassan Rouhani's management style is also like this.