At the end of the war, Hassan Rouhani was awarded the second-grade Fath (Victory) Medal along with a group of commanders of the Iranian Army and the Revolutionary Guards. In another ceremony on the occasion of the liberation of Khoramshahr, he and a group of other officials and military commanders who were involved in the war with Iraq were awarded first-grade Nasr Medal by the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces Ayatollah Khamenei.Rouhani was offered and turned down the post of Minister of Intelligence of Homeland in 1989.
Nevertheless, he remains a key figure in contemporary political history, recognized for his emphasis on negotiation and measured policy approaches. Rouhani’s pragmatic orientation often put him at odds with hardline factions who were more distrustful of Western engagement.
