(Ynet News) Shmuel Sasoni - In 1992, recently elected Iranian president Hassan Rowhani's elder son took his own life in protest of his father's close connection with Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. In his suicide note, published in Asharq al-Awsat by exiled Iranian political commentator Ali Reza Nouri, the future president's son wrote, "I hate your government, your lies, your corruption, your religion, your double acts and your hypocrisy." "I am ashamed to live in such environment where I'm forced to lie to my friends each day, telling them that my father isn't part of all of this....It makes me sick seeing you, my father, kiss the hand of Khamenei."
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