The son of influential former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has been sentenced to 15 years in prison over security and corruption charges.
A judicial spokesman has declined to offer the specific offences for which Mahdi Hashemi Rafsanjani was convicted, only saying that he will also be banned from public service.
Rafsanjani has 20 days to appeal the sentence.
He is the former president's second-eldest son.
He was briefly imprisoned before standing trial on charges of fomenting unrest in the aftermath of Iran's disputed 2009 presidential election won by former hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Since the former president backed Ahmadinejad's reformist challenger, his family has come under tremendous pressure.
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