Kim Murphy is not a Wampum reader
We know this because s/he just got a two-pager in the LATimes, Dissent grows in Iran, and in the august pages of the newspaper of record of California s/he demoted the two-term former President of the Islamic Republic and Chairman of the Expediency Council and the highest vote getter for the Assembly of Experts in Tehran, to candidate for the legislature.
So, um, s/he missed the point that Rafsanjani is either the next Supreme Leader, or one of the controlling votes for the next Supreme Leader, and went to the polls and voted with another two-term former President of the Islamic Republic, and just about everything else of significance in the Tehran municipals, other than the date they were held.
Prior work: Hmm. How about this and this and this and this and this. Oh, and this.