In a speech in Karaj, a city west of Tehran, Rafsanjani attacked Ahmadinejad once again during last few days and said: lack of correct management for control of water has shocked the country due to drought.

He added: If the correct policy was adopted in agriculture, our situation would have not been like this; a principled decision must be taken in this regard.

Rafsanjani, who repeatedly attacks Khamenei’s policies these days, added: The research budget is only 5 percent, and this budget is not even consumed in research field.