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  Mohammad-Reza Khatami - dKosopedia
He serves as Secretary-General of the Islamic Iran Participation Front and is the younger brother of the fifth Iranian president Mohammad Khatami.
On October 28, 2006 he told ISNA that, "We reformists are worried whether the elections would be healthy or not and whether there would manipulations on elections day and vote counting." Source: n.a.
Mohammad-Reza Khatami was born in 1959 in Ardakan).
www.dkosopedia.com /wiki/Mohammad-Reza_Khatami   (211 words)

  
  Encyclopedia: Mohammad Khatami
Hojjat ol-Eslam Seyyed Mohammad Khatami (حجت‌الاسلام سید محمد خاتمی; born October 14, 1943 in Ardakan, Yazd province), a prominent Iranian-Moslem intellectual, served as the fifth President of Iran from August 2, 1997 to August 2, 2005 and was succeeded by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Khatami won largely due to the female and youth vote, who voted for him because he promised to improve the status of women and respond to the demands of the young generation in Iran.
Khatami is regarded as Iran's first reformist president, since the focus of his campaign was on the rule of law, democracy and the inclusion of all Iranians in the political decision-making process.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Mohammad-Khatami   (3463 words)

  
 Khatami - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mohammad Reza Khatami, Vice Speaker of Iranian Parliament from 2001 to 2004 and brother of Mohammad Khatami,
Ali Khatami, Iranian Vice President and Chief of Staff and brother of Mohammad and Mohammad Reza Khatami;
Ahmad Khatami, one of the scribes of the Iranian Assembly of Experts
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Khatami   (131 words)

  
 Khatami, Mohammad on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Mohammad Khatami appelle les durs du régime à accepter les réformes
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 Mohammad Reza Khatami - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Seyyed Mohammad Reza Khatami (محمد رضا خاتمی), also known as Reza Khatami (born in 1959 in Ardakan), is an Iranian politician.
He is the Secretary-General of the Islamic Iran Participation Front, the younger brother of the fifth Iranian president Mohammad Khatami, and the former deputy speaker of the Iranian parliament.
He is the son of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khatami.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mohammad_Reza_Khatami   (206 words)

  
 Mohammad Khatami - dKosopedia
Mohammad Khatami or Seyyed Mohammad Khatami or سید محمد خاتمی; born September 29, 1943) is an Iranian intellectual, philosopher and political figure.
Khatami was elected president on May 23, 1997 and was re-elected on June, 2001 for a second term.
Khatami won largely due to the female and youth vote, who voted for him because he promised to improve the status of women and respond to the demands of the young generation in Iran.
www.dkosopedia.com /wiki/Mohammad_Khatami   (192 words)

  
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Khatami was informed by the Guardian Council, the government watchdog group, that he was not considered loyal to the supreme religious leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and was barred from running for office.
Khatami has encouraged Iranians to shun the coming election and blames his brother, 16 years his senior, for his hesitancy in the current crisis and for acquiescing in a vote that critics say is fundamentally flawed.
Khatami said he worried that the reform movement might now be crippled by the disqualifications and consigned to the political sidelines for years.
courses.wcupa.edu /rbove/eco343/040Compecon/Iran/040219khatami.txt   (890 words)

  
 Online NewsHour: Iran Reform Challenges | Dr. Mohammad Reza Khatami -- February 2005
MOHAMMAD REZA KHATAMI: You know, after 9/11 in the U.S., I think the United States government and the western countries realized that dictatorship governments -- especially in the region are the main enemy to democracy in the world -- are the main enemy of the free world.
MOHAMMAD REZA KHATAMI: I think another positive issue that we have in the last 8 years in Iran is that the wave of democracy is influencing inside the government also.
MOHAMMAD REZA KHATAMI: I think the situation is a little bit better than one year ago in the parliamentary elections because the result they wanted to achieve in the parliament, they have not achieved.
www.pbs.org /search/newshour/redir/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/middle_east/jan-june05/khatami_interview.html   (5443 words)

  
 PRESIDENT KHATAMI CONFIRMS HE
Khatami seemed to be more anxious to please to the conservatives than to satisfy his own base, meaning the students, the youngsters and the women, all expecting him to take a firm stand and identify his foes, those who created one crisis every nine days for him, as he himself admitted", observed Mr.
Khatami told the conservatives that it is thanks to him that they still enjoy power and advantages, for it was he who almost saved the regime from chaos and international isolation when he took over.
Khatami has prepared a 130-pages report containing all the regime’s shortcomings and bottlenecks he is about to send to the leader, with part of it expected to be released to the public.
www.iran-press-service.com /articles_2001/mar_2001/khatami_majles_speech_12301.htm   (808 words)

  
 Mohammad Khatami,
Mohammad Khatami Les conservateurs iraniens ont dénié à Mohammad Khatami le droit de contester leurs pouvoirs, en invoquan.
Mohammad Khatami et Atal Behari Vajpayee samedi à New Delhi Le président iranien Mohammad Khatami a estimé samedi en Inde.
Mohammad Khatami, le 9 juillet à Téhéran Le président iranien Mohammad Khatami a ordonné dimanche à quatre de ses ministre.
www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0884112.html   (266 words)

  
 Mohammad Khatami Information
Khatami won largely due to the female and youth vote, who voted for him because he promised to improve the status of women and respond to the demands of the young generation in Iran.
Khatami married Zohreh Sadeghi, daughter of a famous professor of religious law, and niece of Imam Musa al-Sadr, in 1974 (at the age of 31).
Khatami's brother, Dr. Mohammad Reza Khatami was elected as Tehran's first member of parliament in the 6th term of Majlis, during which he served as deputy speaker of the parliament.
mohammad-khatami.zdnet.co.za /zdnet/Mohammad_Khatami   (3924 words)

  
 BBC News | MIDDLE EAST | Khatami's brother to head reform party
Mohammad Reza Khatami was chosen by the party's central council at its first congress in Tehran.
Mohammad Reza Khatami, a 40-year-old urologist and parliament's deputy speaker, was elected to the two-year term on the second day of the congress.
Mohammad Reza Khatami is married to the grand-daughter of Ayatollah Khomeini, the Iranian revolution's late leader.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/middle_east/845350.stm   (436 words)

  
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Mohammad Reza Khatami, vice speaker of parliament, said the Islamic Iran Participation Front, the country's largest reform party, would maintain its boycott of the parliamentary elections.
Khatami, President Mohammad Khatami's brother, is the party's leader.
Reza Khatami said President Khatami had told Khamenei what happened.
www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/scfcn/CTVNews/20040205/iran_elections_040205/World   (312 words)

  
 CNN.com - Reformers predict big win in Iran's parliamentary vote - February 17, 2000
Mohammad Reza Khatami, the president's brother and a front-running candidate in Tehran, predicts a two-thirds majority for reformists.
Mohammad Reza Bahonar, a spokesman for the conservative Coalition of Followers of the Line of Imam and the Leader, said his alliance was confident it would wind up with more than half the seats.
Mohammad Reza Khatami said victory for reformers would accelerate improved ties to other national governments, including that of the United States.
archives.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/meast/02/17/iran.elections.02   (1019 words)

  
 FarsiNet News - News related to Iran, Iranians and Persians - May2000
Reformers backing moderate President Mohammad Khatami won more than 100 seats in the first vote in February, but were subsequently caught up in result cancellations and a row with conservatives over the final tally in Tehran.
Mohammad Reza Khatami, younger brother of the president and the top vote-getter in Tehran, said such talk betrays the conservatives' fear that they are losing their grip on power.
Khatami has watched the conservatives and their demands for Islamic purity in the press undermine one of his few concrete achievements of the past three years.
www.farsinet.com /news/may2000wk1.html   (6890 words)

  
 LOS ANGELES TIMES INTERVIEW Mohammad Reza Khatami
But Khatami isn't threatened by the one exception, for the only man to receive more popular votes in an Iranian election over the past decade is his older brother: President Mohammad Khatami.
Reza Khatami's wife is the granddaughter of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the revolutionary leader.
To ease anxieties of conservative opponents, Reza Khatami ceded the job of speaker of parliament to a centrist politician.
www.iraniantrade.org /_NewsUpdates/000008c8.htm   (1736 words)

  
 Iranian reformist MPs quit over poll dispute, label hardliners "Taliban" -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
President Mohammad Khatami 's brother Mohammad-Reza Khatami, head of the main reformist party, warned of a conservative "coup d'etat" supported by the military.
Khatami's government has already refused to organise the elections, and the resignations of 40 percent of MPs will deny the Majlis its required two-thirds quorum for future sessions -- effectively paralysing pending legislation such as the national budget.
Mohammad Reza Khatami, head of the Islamic Iran Participation Front, warned conservatives not to force the holding of the vote.
www.aljazeera.com /cgi-bin/news_service/middle_east_full_story.asp?service_id=108   (1167 words)

  
 Iran News - Khatami's brother re-elected to head Iran's largest party   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Secretary general of Iran's principal reformist movement, the Islamic Iran Participation Front (IIPF), Mohammad Reza Khatami, and his wife Zahra Eshraghi, granddoughter of the founder of the Islamic republic, the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, seen here attending the opening ceremony of the third IIPF congress in Tehran 17 July 2002.
Mohammad-Reza Khatami was elected by the party's central council during the three-day party general assembly meeting in Tehran which ended Friday, the reformist Hambastegi paper reported.
Naimipour, also re-elected to the board, is alleged to be behind a "subversive plan of action" by the IIPF to retain power in the municipal, legislative and presidential elections to be held in 2003, 2004 and 2005 respectively.
www.iranmania.com /News/ArticleView/Default.asp?NewsCode=11206&NewsKind=CurrentAffairs   (809 words)

  
 Khatami vows legal action against poll bans
Tehran, Jan 11, IRNA -- President Mohammad Khatami pledged Sunday to tap legal channels as it emerged that a large number of hopefuls, including many incumbent MPs, had been barred from standing in February`s parliamentary election.
President Khatami, however, appealed on all political groups to stay calm and move in the framework of the law and avoid doing anything which may lead to tensions.
The head of parliament`s national security and foreign policy commission, Mohsen Mirdamadi, said the supervisory board had barred the first and second parliament deputies, Mohammad Reza Khatami and Behzad Nabavi, on the grounds that they were disloyal to Islam and the Islamic Republic as well as the supreme leader.
www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/library/news/iran/2004/iran-040111-irna01.htm   (548 words)

  
 Green Party of Iran - News
TEHRAN, Iran, March 30, 2000 (AFP) - Mohammad-Reza Khatami, brother of the Iranian president and publisher of the reformist daily Mosharekat (Participation), was summoned Thursday to appear before the country's press court, IRNA reported.
Khatami has been named as a defendant in a "private defamation and libel suit," and is to stand trial "next week, perhaps later next month," the official news agency said without further comment.
Khatami launched the daily Mosharekat in January as the organ of the Islamic Iran Participation Front (IIPF) which he heads and which scored a sweeping victory in last month's parliamentary elections.
www.iran-e-sabz.org /news/closures1.htm   (250 words)

  
 FarsiNet News - News related to Iran, Iranians and Persians - April 2000
Khatami, who rarely speaks out directly on the power struggle with hard-liners, made one of his strongest condemnations yet against opponents of liberalization.
Khatami wants to ease the political, cultural and social restrictions imposed by the clergy's rule, but the hard-liners say that would dilute the ideals of the Islamic revolution.
Khatami underlined the need of security and tranquility in the country, saying no action should be taken which may worry "the leader, the nation, the faithful and the youth about national security."
www.farsinet.com /news/april2000.html   (3419 words)

  
 GN Online: Khatami 'determined to seek re-election'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
President Khatami yesterday challenged the conservative-led judiciary to defend Iran's constitution, the latest in the escalating war of words between the two branches of government.
Asked if he supported the judiciary's plans to supervise a proposed Constitutional Court, Khatami said it was too soon to tell whether Iran's judges were prepared to enforce the rights and freedoms in the constitution.
On Sunday, a subdued Khatami had said the office of president lacked the power to carry out its duty to enforce the law.
www.gulf-news.com /Articles/print.asp?ArticleID=3872   (535 words)

  
 RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
In an interview published by the official IRNA news agency, Mohammad Reza Khatami said the ongoing wave of demonstrations by students and other reformists shows that Iran's government no longer responds to the needs of the people.
Khatami said that efforts to repress the protests would be futile, and warned that student resistance was largely responsible for the fall of the regime of Iran's Shah.
Khatami, who heads Iran's main reformist party, also said that reformists as well as conservatives should listen to demands from protesters, many of whom accuse the reformist president of being too weak.
www.rferl.org /nca/features/2002/12/10122002142348.asp   (176 words)

  
 Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) - memri.de   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Mohammad Reza Khatami added, "The gap between the rulers and the people is widening...
Reza Khatami said that in the past, Iran-U.S. relations had been "murky and complex, but our national interests cannot be based on the past.
Reza Khatami said that the U.S. should respect Iran's independence, and should not interfere in Iran's domestic affairs.
www.memri.de /uebersetzungen_analysen/laender/iran/iran_reform_struggle_20_11_02.html   (2657 words)

  
 WILL KHATAMI FOLLOW IN MOSSADEQ’S FOOTSTEPS?
At 8am that day, Mohammad Ali Abtahi, President Mohammad Khatami’s adviser for legal and parliamentary affairs, left his office and drove to the Majlis (Parliament), where he handed Deputy Speaker Mohammad Reza Khatami a draft for new powers Khatami wanted to assume.
In his followers’ eyes, Khatami instantly turned into a leader who refuses to acknowledge defeat one prepared to challenge the authority of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khameneh’i and the centres of power that still exercise control over the judiciary, the Revolutionary Guards, Radio and TV and the apparatus of state security.
Mohammad Reza Khatami says the President is unable to exercise his powers without this bill; but all previous presidents managed to steer the ship of state successfully without enjoying the powers introduced in the new bill".
www.iran-press-service.com /articles_2002/Oct_2002/khatami_at_crossroads_91002.htm   (958 words)

  
 printable news   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Mohammad Reza Khatami, who is also the Iranian parliament's vice speaker and a younger brother of President Mohammad Khatami, said the view by hard-liners that Khamenei is above the law and answerable only to God was tantamount to dictatorship.
Reza Khatami said unelected hard-liners account for 15% of the population but are stubbornly resisting the program of democratic reforms voted for in several free elections since 1997.
Reza Khatami said that the real responsibility did not lie with the person who beat her to death, but "with members of the Guardian Council who have opposed legislation banning torture."
www.iranvajahan.net /cgi-bin/printarticle.pl?l=en&y=2003&m=10&d=16&a=7   (459 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Middle East | Profile: Mohammad Reza Khatami
Khatami is a deputy speaker in Iran's parliament
Mohammad Reza Khatami is the younger brother of President Khatami.
Despite his strong revolutionary credentials - he served in the Iran-Iraq war and his wife is a granddaughter of Ayatollah Khomeini - Mr Khatami is a strong supporter of the president's policies.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/middle_east/3052292.stm   (218 words)

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