Zhao was then still general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, but he had lost the battle with his hardline rivals.
Rouhani won by a landslide in the 14 June presidential election, defeating his conservative and hardline rivals.
The president accused his hardline rivals of trying to drive a wedge between him and the man who sits at the top of Iran's clerical leadership and has final say in all state matters.
This is why, on March 11th 1990, the newly elected Supreme Soviet of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic voted unilaterally to restore the country's pre-war independence, with immediate effect.That horrified most outsiders, who were more concerned about keeping Mikhail Gorbachev in power in the Soviet Union and his hardline rivals out of it.
Mr Rouhani, Iran's former chief nuclear negotiator who beat his hardline rivals by securing more than 50 per cent of the votes in Friday's polls told state TV today: "With their celebrations, the Iranian people showed they are hopeful about the future, and, God willing, morals and moderation will govern the country".
Hardline rivals were quick to ridicule reformist politicians for "reducing public diplomacy to absurdity", arguing that they could not handle internet freedom, for which President Rouhani has campaigned.
Some have even suggested that the recent, brief overnight access to social media was a sign of an internal struggle between Mr Rouhani's government and his hardline rivals.
It will strengthen the position of his hardline rivals".
Rouhani defended the deal, which his hardline rivals oppose as a concession to pressure from Washington, saying it protected the Islamic Republic's rights to nuclear power, ending Iran's political isolation and crippling economic sanctions.
Aluf Benn, the Ha'aretz editor, said that Jaabari had been eliminated because he had failed in his role as a "sub-contractor" to defend Israel by reining in attacks by hardline Palestinian rivals.
