<span style="color: #222222;">Iran President Hassan Rouhani's brother has been sentenced to an unspecified prison term for corruption.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Iran's semi-official ISNA news agency today said that Hossein Fereidoun, a close confidante of the president, will be able to appeal the verdict. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The financial misconduct charges date back to 2016, and were brought by hard-liners who dominate the country's judiciary.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Fereidoun's trial began in February. He has been free on bail since spending a night in prison in 2017. He had played a role as part of the team that negotiated Iran's 2015 nuclear agreement with world powers.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Iran has in the past too jailed allies of former presidents for similar charges.</span><br />''