Hundreds of thousands bid farewell to Rafsanjani

tehran - Around Tehran University have hundreds of thousands of people gathered for the funeral of former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. Who died Sunday at the age of 82 in a hospital after a heart attack.

The funeral service will be led by Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei, the BBC reports. Monday officially began a three-day period of mourning. Rafsanjani, who from 1989 to 1997 president, is buried next to Ayatollah Khomeini, the leader of the Iranian revolution.

condolences were received from around the world. But social media Iranians are also critical of the way in which Rafsanjani dealt with human rights.

Since the 1979 revolution wrong moderate cleric Rafsanjani in the center of power in Iran. Initially, he was a hardliner, but later he was in favor of reform in the strict Muslim country.