DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) Jan 9, 2017 – Sunni-ruled Saudi Arabia, which is Shiite power Iran’s greatest regional rival, noticeably did not immediately send condolences over Rafsanjani’s death. One of its state-run television channels aired an interview with an MEK official that linked Rafsanjani to the mass execution of thousands of prisoners at the end of the country’s bloody war with Iraq in 1988.