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		Hadi is on the other side of the political spectrum from his brother, and was elected to parliament in the 2000 legislative elections.
		Hadi Khamenei is a top pro-reform lawmaker seeking to dilute the broad powers of the ruling clerics, led by his brother.
		Hadi Khamenei was beaten two years ago by Islamic extremists during a political meeting in Qom.
	gummibear.netfirms.com /HTML/catatonicshock.html (1768 words)

	Iranian presidential election, 2005 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ayatollah Khamenei then wrote to Karroubi and mentioned that these allegations are below his dignity and will result in a crisis in Iran, which he will not allow.
		This, and the objections of some of the approved candidates, led to a letter from Ayatollah Khamenei, the Supreme Leader, to the Guardian Council asking for the approval of Moeen and Mehralizadeh (this had apparently been because of a request by Haddad-Adel, the conservative Speaker of the Parliament) [7].
		Contrary to the public announcement of Ayatollah Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran, that nobody knows who he will personally vote for, Ghalibaf had claimed privately that he is the person Khamenei will vote for.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Iranian_presidential_election%2C_2005 (2955 words)

	IRAN: ROW OVER ‘INSULT’ TO KHOMEINI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		An emotional Khamenei, who is also a mid-ranking cleric and reformist MP who was jailed by the government of the late Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi for supporting Khomeini before the 1979 revolution, denied the charges his paper had insulted his late friend.
		With tears in his eyes Khamenei, whose brother Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is the republic’s most powerful conservative, told Parliament he regretted having survived the shah’s prisons to “be a witness to this deplorable campaign”.
		Khamenei, whose paper was banned by the Special Clerical Court, added that he believed he had become a “target” of the hard-liners.
	www.mmorning.com /article.asp?Article=4929&CategoryID=6 (784 words)

	The Daily Star - Opinion Articles - The Khatami era draws to a close (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		All the cliques around Khamenei are ideologically totalitarian, although they are not capable of organizing all their loyalists in an iron-fist-like party.
		Mehdi Karrubi, the former speaker of Parliament, and Sayyed Hadi Khamenei, a former MP and the supreme leader's brother, has no chance of standing as a candidate for reformist groups and parties, despite such groups' positive mutterings about his potential candidacy.
		Khamenei is thinking about one of his loyal trusted operational agents without an independent political career.
	www.dailystar.com.lb /article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=5&article_id=6366 (1187 words)

	BBC News \| MIDDLE EAST \| Ayatollah's brother faces court summons
		Hadi Khamenei, the younger brother of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has been summoned by a special religious court to answer charges of unspecified press offences.
		Mr Khamenei is allied with President Khatami and is opposed to his older brother, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who as supreme leader of Iran is considered closer to the conservatives.
		Hadi Khamenei is a cleric himself and that's why he is summoned by the Special Court for the Clergy.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/middle_east/919078.stm (388 words)

	BBC News \| MIDDLE EAST \| Khamenei's brother attacks reformist purge
		The brother of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, has criticised the disqualification of reformist candidates for the general elections by a vetting commission dominated by conservatives.
		Hadi Khamenei is himself a member of the reformist camp, while the Ayatollah is generally regarded as tending towards the right.
		Now Hadi Khamenei, has gone against the wishes of the supreme leader by again hitting out in public at the council's disqualification of reformist candidates.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/world/middle_east/600741.stm (376 words)

	CNN.com - Brother of Iran's supreme leader summoned to court, fined - September 11, 2000
		The summons order for Hadi Khamenei was the third issued by the Special Clergy Court since the Hayat-e-Nou newspaper debuted, the aide, Abbas Safaifar, told The Associated Press.
		Hadi Khamenei is opposed to his brother, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who is a conservative.
		Khamenei's newspaper was the only reformist newspaper to escape a media crackdown by the hard-line judiciary that has shut down 24 pro-reform papers in the past four months.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/meast/09/11/iran.politics.ap (572 words)

	Protesters say Iranian conservatives stacking the deck for upcoming vote (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Although no one expects Khamenei to be dismissed or leave office soon, the Oct. 23 election is important because it could determine whether Iran's army, police and judiciary remain under control, in the long run, of a conservative leader like him or a moderate like Khatami.
		Candidates are screened for their knowledge of religion and politics by the Guardian Council, made up of 12 clerics and jurists appointed by Khamenei who, under Iran's system of government, are meant to ensure that all the organs of government conform to Islamic values.
		The main rally speaker was Hadi Khamenei, the younger brother of the supreme leader and a cleric who publishes the leftist newspaper Jahan-i-Islam.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/world/98/10/07/iran.2-0.html (562 words)

	FarsiNet News - News related to Iran, Iranians and Persians - February 1999
		Local newspapers reported that hardline militants attacked and beat up Hadi Khamenei, a mid-ranking moderate Shi'ite Moslem cleric and a younger brother of Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, while he was delivering a speech at a mosque in the holy city of Qom on Thursday.
		The younger Khamenei, publisher of the moderate daily Jahan-e Eslam, is an outspoken supporter of Khatami's reformist policies which hardline conservatives fear would dilute Iran's revolutionary principles.
		Khamenei is politically distanced from his senior brother who is believed to be closer to conservatives.
	www.farsinet.com /news/feb99wk2.html (2816 words)

	Three editors of banned daily arrested over controversial cartoon
		Earlier Sunday, Hadi Khamenei, who represents Tehran in the parliament, denied allegations that the caricature intended to insult the founder of the Islamic Revolution.
		Hadi Khamenei delivered an emotional speech at the parliament floor, saying certain people were trying to deny his many years of loyalty to Imam Khomeini as well as his imprisonment and ordeals at the former Shah's prisons.
		The Special Court for the Clergy said that the daily's Managing Editor Hadi Khamenei was summoned to the Court and was informed to stop publication of the daily until further notice.
	www.payvand.com /news/03/jan/1059.html (1261 words)

	Others 1997
		Hadi was determined to be accepted to the ranks of the special units, the elite of the Lebanese resistance, at any price.
		Let me tell you a secret: my son Hadi is not the only son of a Hizballah leader who fights in the ranks of the resistance.
		Ayatollah Khamenei considers a lot of importance for this matter in his researches so that has presented some new topics and also settled some old problems.
	www.khamenei.de /others/others1997.htm (4935 words)

	Iran Daily (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Earlier on Sunday, Khatami met with the newly-appointed ambassador to the United Arab Emirates Mohammad Ali Hadi and hoped for broader cooperation between Tehran and Abu Dhabi in all fields.
		Before his appointment to the UAE mission, Hadi was deputy foreign minister for parliamentary and consular affairs.
		Speaking on the sidelines of a gathering of the secretaries of Assembly of Combatant Clerics in Mashhad, Secretary-General of the Assembly of Imam Khomeini's Line Hadi Khamenei added that reformist groups are not facing any difficulty in reaching consensus on a single candidate, IRNA reported.
	www.iran-daily.com /1383/2187/html/national.htm (1034 words)

	FarsiNet News - News related to Iran, Iranians and Persians - October 1998
		So politicized has the atmosphere become that Hadi Khamenei, a brother of Ayatollah Khamenei who is nevertheless aligned with Khatami, said in an interview that the conservative faction could best be defined as "the one that wants to keep the power."
		So sensitive is the issue that Ayatollah Ali Montazeri, a longtime rival of Khamenei, has been under house arrest since shortly after he suggested in a speech last fall that the proper role of the supreme leader should be to supervise, not to rule.
		Khamenei, who has the final word on all matters of state, is widely considered close to hardliners and conservatives, who do minate the current assembly.
	www.farsinet.com /news/oct98wk3.html (3998 words)

	The Iranian: News & Views
		Hadi Khamenei, an adviser to reformist President Mohammad Khatami, was beaten up by fundamentalist activists at the Mohammadiyeh mosque in the holy city of Qom last Thursday.
		Hadi Khamenei has attracted controversy for taking political positions different from those of his brother, a religious conservative.
		Khamenei was treated in hospital for his injuries but was able to go home.
	www.iranian.com /News/Feb99/arrests.html (231 words)

	Green Party of Iran - News
		An altogether more surprising champion of the reform movement is the younger brother of Ayatollah Khamenei, who symbolises the rightwing camp.
		Hadi Khamenei, a press adviser to the president, runs a liberal newspaper and his views got him beaten up by hardline vigilantes last year.
		Analysts say that Mr Khamenei has also been able to use his name to woo voters by underlining his differences to his brother.
	www.iran-e-sabz.org /news/election13.html (643 words)

	The Iranian: News & Views
		Hadi was taken to hospital with head wounds after hardliners beat him up at the Mohammadieh mosque in the holy city of Qom, site of theological schools where many of Iran's leading clerics have trained and a stronghold of anti-Khatami conservatives.
		Hadi is a controversial figure even within his own family, because of his links with the radical left, opposing him to his brother Ayatollah Khamenei, who is regarded as the power behind the conservatives linked to the bazaar traders and the traditional religious hierarchy.
		Rasul Montajabnia, a close associate of Hadi Khamenei, was beaten up in Qom on Thursday evening in exactly the same circumstances as Hadi himself, the Salam newspaper said.
	www.iranian.com /News/Feb99/hadi.html (645 words)

	Iran Now a Hotbed of Islamic Reforms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The most unusual case, however, may be that of Hadi Khamenei, a tall man with an elegant, leonine face who can often be found in his office wearing an open-neck shirt with rolled-up sleeves.
		What makes Khamenei so riveting is the fact that Iran's supreme leader is his older brother by eight years: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
		In February, the younger Khamenei ran for the 290-seat parliament and garnered the fourth-highest tally.
	www.islamfortoday.com /iran.htm (3013 words)

	Green Party of Iran - News
		Amini-Moghadem, part of a gang of eight youths, reportedly attacked Mohebi and criticised him for his religious zeal, particularly his complaint that local youths were harassing young women.
		The five-million-strong Basiji are under the direct command of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
		In July they helped quell the six days of violent unrest that erupted after a student protest over the court-ordered closure of a moderate newspaper was attacked by security forces and Islamic militants.
	www.iran-e-sabz.org /news/deathsentence2.html (214 words)

	BBC News \| MIDDLE EAST \| New attack on Iran leadership
		He criticised the concentration of power held by Ayatollah Khamenei's office, saying his authority should extend only to areas of expertise in religious jurisprudence and not to all matters of state.
		On Wednesday, Ayatollah Khamenei's own brother added his voice to criticism by leading reformist clerics of the disqualification of the candidates.
		Addressing students at a Tehran university, Hadi Khamenei said the disqualifications were distorting the nation's vote and Iranian democracy.
	news2.thdo.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/middle_east/602118.stm (552 words)

	WorldNetDaily: Bin Laden's top lieutenant in jail?
		Hadi Khamenei is in a position to know if the report is true: He represents Tehran in the Majlis, where he also heads the committee on Afghanistan.
		Nevertheless, it is possible that Hadi Khamenei and Hayat-e No's staff may have been fed false information to discredit and exploit schisms in the reform movement.
		If Hadi Khamenei, who at times has pushed for faster and deeper reform than Khatami is willing to attempt, believes the government is holding Zawahiri and trying to dispose of him quietly, he may have publicized the story to force the government to address these hot political issues.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=26522 (825 words)

	Encyclopedia: Iranian presidential election, 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Iranian presidential election of October 1981, took place on October 2, 1981, after the assasination of Mohammad Ali Rajai, the previous President of Iran, during the interim prime ministership of Mohammad Reza Mahdavi-Kani.
		The Iranian presidential election of 1989 took place on July 28, 1989, after the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and the selection of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the previous President of Iran, as the new Supreme Leader of Iran.
		Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei (Persian: آیت‌الله سید علی خامنه‌ای) (born July 15, 1939) is the Iran.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Iranian-presidential-election,-2005 (7354 words)

	Hadi Khamenei - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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	CNN.com - Straw lobbies Afghan neighbours - November 22, 2001
		Straw insisted that the international mission in Afghanistan would not supplant the will of the Afghan people, and that an international military presence there would last only as long as necessary and would be withdrawn when it was no longer needed.
		Reformist member of parliament Hadi Khamenei underscored recent comments from Washington and London regarding the treatment of women by the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan, saying that women in particular must have a say in the future of the embattled central Asian nation.
		Khamenei also said that Iran condemns terrorism, and called on the international community not to remain indifferent to what he called "state terrorism perpetuated by Israel," a call that has been repeated by numerous Muslim nations since the U.S.-led war on terrorism began.
	www.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/meast/11/22/straw.diplomacy/index.html (546 words)

	Corpus Christi Online - / Iran's president orders investigation into attack by hard-liners
		Shouting "Death to Khatami!" about 100 people used sticks and iron bars to beat Hadi Khamenei as he prepared to address a gathering in Mohammadiyeh Mosque, witnesses said.
		Khamenei, a press adviser to Khatami, was taken to hospital with "serious injuries," several Tehran newspapers reported Saturday.
		Hadi Khamenei owns the liberal-leftist newspaper World of Islam and his political views are moderate, in contrast to those of his elder brother, who is a leading hard-liner in the Iranian hierarchy.
	www.oldconcretestreet.com /autoconv/newsworld99/newsworld97.html (402 words)

	Behnoud.com
		This came after 151 newly elected members of the parliament had written to Shahrudi to put an end to newspaper closedowns, and five days after President Khatami had protested to the judiciary regarding the newspaper closures.
		The bill had been proposed to remove some of the restrictions that had been imposed by the previous parliament back in April (see May 2000 issue of the Chronicle).
		Khamenei directly intervened by calling the proposed bill illegitimate and instructing the parliament leadership to drop it.
	behnoud.com /news/August2000IHRWG.htm (1405 words)

	frontline: terror and tehran: inside iran: by popular demand - iranian elections, 1997-2001 \| PBS
		In August of 1997, Supreme Leader Khamenei confirmed Khatami as the fifth president of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
		In fact, the Supreme Leader's younger brother, Hadi Khamenei, was judged to have insufficient theological qualifications, despite the fact that he had received years of clerical training in Qom.
		Supreme Leader Khamenei intervened, postponing the inauguration until the issue was resolved.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/tehran/inside/elections.html (2259 words)

	Welcome to Netiran! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Hadi Qabel, head of the Islamic Iran Participation Front in the holy city of Qom, maintains that the conservatives intend to dissuade the people from voting to sweep the legislative elections and clear the way for the presidential poll.
		Last year, we held a meeting in Qom and lawmaker Hadi Khamenei was supposed to deliver a speech.
		Khamenei got a good pummel by unidentified assailants before starting his speech.
	www.netiran.com /?fn=artd(105) (1451 words)

	February 1998 Al-Moujez Summary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In contrast to the conservatives that make up Khamenei's advisory group, the Presidential Council's makeup is significantly more liberal and progressive.
		Brother of the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei and former editor of the monthly 'Jahane Eslam ' (World of Islam), which was shut down by former President Rafsanjani.
		He has served as the personal emissary of Khatami and Khamenei to the religious leadership in Qom which have expressed dissatisfaction with government and social policy.
	www.caisuk.com /alm0298.htm (1643 words)

	RFE/RL Iran Report
		Iranian state radio announced on 18 May that Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has ordered a halt to the recounting of votes in Tehran from last February's parliamentary elections, and the Guardians Council announced the results on 20 May. Reformists, however, are not very happy with the final outcome.
		Khamenei ordered the halt because counting the ballots in all 3,000 boxes would take too long and because there were insufficient grounds for disputing the validity of the ballots in the remaining boxes.
		In cases where the ballot box's invalidity was proven, the results "must be declared to be invalid." In his letter to the council, which was described by state broadcasting, Khamenei instructed that those suspected of negligence or tampering with the ballot boxes should be identified and prosecuted.
	www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/library/news/iran/2000/20-220500.html (2868 words)

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