Khatami Mania (Free subscription) | yesterday
... that Prodi will stay in Tehran for several days and then will leave for Yazd, former President Mohammad Khatami's hometown, to attend a ceremony. Prodi was the first European country's top-ranking official who visited Iran in 1998 after the victory of the Islamic Revolution in 1979. In 1998, Khatami was Iran's president. Madrid Club is an independent organization which has...
Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
It’s the question Iran’s former president, Mohammad Khatami, has apparently been asking himself recently. And he’s not the only one asking. On October 4, Khatami finally announced two preconditions for running as a candidate in next June’s presidential election. He said “reaching a compromise with the Iranian nation for their requests” and “receiving assurance for [...]
Khatami Mania (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
By BARRY SCHWEID, AP Diplomatic Writer In an effort to help the United States counter al-Qaida after the 9/11 attack, Iran rounded up hundreds of Arabs who had crossed the border from Afghanistan, expelled many of them and made copies of nearly 300 of their passports, a former Bush administration official said Tuesday. The copies were sent to Kofi Annan, the U.N. secretary-general, who passed them...
Alarabiya.net (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
Iran's reformist former president Mohammad Khatami has revealed he is considering running for the post again next year but cautioned against too high expectations, newspapers reported on Sunday. A number of reformist parties and prominent figures have been urging Khatami to stand in the June
ROOZ :: English (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
... elections of 1997 and 2001, where 98 percent of the Sunni community voted for reformist Seyyed Mohammad Khatami. Even Mostafa Moein, the reformist presidential candidate in the 2005 presidential election, received the most number of votes in Sistan and Baluchistan province with 479,102 votes out of the total of 874,352, with Hashemi Rafsanjani in second place with 155,000 votes....
