Tehran - Iran's Islamic system has emerged from recent unrest as strong and as stable as ever, former president Mr Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said yesterday. However, he warned that the unrest, among the worst since the 1979 Islamic revolution, could scare away foreign investors.
Mr Rafsanjani told a prayer gathering that popular reaction against six days of unrest, which began after police and Islamic vigilantes attacked a pro-democracy student rally, had proved the lasting power of the principle of supreme clerical rule.