Raf·san·ja·ni 
(räf′sän-jänē), Ali Akbar Hashemi Born 1934.
(räf′sän-jänē), Ali Akbar Hashemi Born 1934. Iranian religious and political leader who served as president from 1989 to 1997. A founding member of the Islamic Republican Party, he sought to improve Iran's economy and its relations with the West.