Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the influential former Iranian president, warns of the grave consequences for Iran of a possible US attack, in a public challenge to the leadership's handling of the crisis surrounding its nuclear programme. Rafsanjani was speaking during a visit to the holy city of Qom, where he was seeking to foster consensus among senior Ayats against the radical approach of Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad, the president. Iran's supreme leader Ayat Ali Khamenei, reiterated that ...