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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Weekend Edition Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Iran's Rafsanjani ousted as head of state body Reuters - Wednesday, March 9 Send IM Story Print By Parisa Hafezi and Reza Derakhshi TEHRAN - Former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani lost his position as head of an important state clerical body on Tuesday after hardliners criticised him for being too close to the reformist opposition. The defeat for one of the great survivors of Iranian politics since the 1979 Islamic revolution highlighted how opponents of hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are being isolated and sidelined. It follows reports by relatives of reformist opposition leaders Mirhossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karoubi -- denied by the government -- that they have been placed in detention at a secret location to stop them orchestrating pro-democracy protests inspired by uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt. Opposition websites have called on people to take to streets in fresh demonstrations on Tuesday, International Women's Day, despite an official ban. An ambush challenge by arch hardliner Ayatollah Mohammad Reza Mahdavi-Kani forced Rafsanjani to withdraw from running for re-election as chairman of the Assembly of Experts. The 86-member clerical body has the authority to appoint and dismiss Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, 71, but it has never exercised that power since the Assembly was established in 1983. The vote will not have an immediate practical impact on Iran's complex political structure but analysts said the hardline triumph at the Assembly would further homogenize the clerical establishment by removing any semblance of dissent. Rafsanjani, who had chaired the body since 2007, said he had no intention of causing discord. "I regard division at the Assembly as detrimental ... I had said before that should he stand for the position, I would withdraw to prevent any rift," Rafsanjani told the Assembly in a speech, the students news agency ISNA said. Iranian media reported last week that more than 50 members of the Assembly supported the candidacy of Mahdavi-Kani, but the challenger played coy up to the last minute over whether he would run. The defeat was a blow to Rafsanjani's attempt to play a bridging role between dominant Islamic hardliners and the increasingly marginalised reformist opposition since Ahmadinejad's disputed re-election in 2009. "THE AGILE CLERIC" The 2009 vote, which authorities denied rigging as the opposition claimed, jolted Iran with the biggest anti-government street unrest in the past three decades, creating a deepening rift within the Islamic elites. Rafsanjani has faced persistent accusations of corruption and his family has been harrassed since he criticised a harsh crackdown on opposition protests in 2009. His daughter Faezeh, a former lawmaker and a women's rights activist, was briefly detained on February 14 at a banned opposition rally, the first anti-government street protest since December 2009 that was crushed by the elite Revolutionary Guards. His son, Mehdi, risks arrest for his alleged role in the 2009 protests if he returns from self-exile in London; another son, Mohsen, resigned from his job as head of the Tehran Metro on Friday, ending a lengthy dispute with Ahmadinejad. Rafsanjani still heads the Expediency Council, an unelected arbitration body that resolves disputes between parliament and a clerical vetting body, the Guardian Council. Some analysts still believe the agile cleric may still bounce back by using residual influence in some layers of the Revolutionary Guards and among top clerics, who see him as a pillar of the Islamic revolution able to defuse crisis. "The system needs him ... particularly when the Middle East region is boiling and opposition unrest has re-emerged," said an analyst who asked not to be named. Rafsanjani, with a political career spanning more than half a century, has held most of the top positions in Iran's political structure including parliament speaker, armed forces commander and president from 1989 to 1997. 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