The_Info_Web/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Iran Najd Rankuni.md

category	tags	summary	relations	updated
Other	Person Politician Israel	Tehran contact for the Hashemi brothers, head of the Dervish movement, and son-in-law of future Iranian president Rafsanjani.	type with role fn relative_of Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani son-in-law 1	2026-10-28

Iran Najd Rankuni was the Tehran contact for the Hashemi brothers. He was the head of the Dervish movement and a son-in-law of Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who was to become president of Iran.¹

Iran Najd Rankuni was connected with the Iranian Revolution. However, he did not have direct access to the Supreme Council, which actually called the shots in Iran, and therefore could not set up a serious dialogue between the United States and the Iran for the release of the hostages.¹

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1. Ben-Menashe, Ari. Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network. Sheridan Square Press, 1992 (TrineDay reprint, 2015). ↩︎