Six Months Before His Death, Ayatollah Rafsanjani Had a Terrifying Dream—And Wrote It Down

According to Saed News, a recently resurfaced account from Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani’s personal diary has sparked intrigue across Iranian media. The entry, described in a video by his son, Mohsen Hashemi, details a disturbing dream experienced by the late political figure just six months before his sudden death in January 2017.

In the video, which has circulated widely on Persian-language social media, Mohsen Hashemi—head of Iran’s Executives of Construction Party—reads a passage in which his father recalls awakening at 5 a.m. from a nightmare. In the dream, strangers—men, women, and children—entered his residence uninvited. “They would come and go without speaking, and offered no explanation for their presence,” Rafsanjani wrote. “Eventually, they began moving my belongings for no apparent reason.”

Strikingly, the Ayatollah noted the absence of his usual bodyguards and his inability to contact their commander, Mr. Shojaei. Troubled by the dream’s symbolic weight, he reportedly prayed for divine relief and pledged a charitable offering before returning to sleep.

When asked whether Rafsanjani had discussed the dream at the time, Mohsen confirmed he had mentioned it during a trip with longtime associate Hossein Marashi, though the gravity of the incident was not fully recognized at the time.

The timing and eerie detail of the dream have fueled speculation about Rafsanjani’s final months, a period still shadowed by unanswered questions surrounding his death.