Iranian influential cleric and former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani delivers his sermon during Friday prayers at Tehran University in the Iranian capital on July 17, 2009. Rafsanjani called for the release of hundreds of people rounded up during a crackdown on opposition protests and said last month’s disputed presidential vote had broken the trust of Iranians. Portraits show the Islamic republic’s late founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (L) and Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. AFP PHOTO/FARS NEWS/ALI RAFIEI (Photo credit should read ALI RAFIEI/AFP/Getty Images)
