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RadioFarda
April 29, 2018
Sharq was founded in 2003 by supporters of President Mohammad Khatami (1997-2005), two years before the end of his second term and soon turned into reformists flagship daily. The daily has been banned a few times since its launch for undermining Iranian hadliners' authority. While a few individualsÃâà...
RadioFarda
April 26, 2018
Citing “an informed source,” reformist daily E'temad's website reports that surveillance devices have been discovered at former President Mohammad Khatami's office and home. “Eavesdropping on the meetings attended by Khatami is not implausible,” Javad Imam, the managing director of Khatami'sÃâà...
Voice of America
April 26, 2018
Iranian journalists created the association in 1997 at the start of the reformist presidency of Mohammad Khatami. “The Iranian government is an enemy of democracy and independent organizations, so it not only refuses to authorize an organization like RSF, but also prevents pro-government reformistÃâà...
RadioFarda
April 20, 2018
In addition to Nouri, in attendance at the meeting at Rouhani's residence were former President Mohammad Khatami, current Vice President Ishaq Jahangiri, and former speaker of the parliament and the head of the Supreme Leader's Inspection Office, Ali Akbar Nateq Nouri. The group criticized RouhaniÃâà...
New York Times
April 16, 2018
TEHRAN — If you are Iranian, much of your life for the past few years has depended on a messaging app called Telegram. It has become something of a parallel, but uncensored, internet. Since 2013, Telegram has replaced email, chat, forums, blogs, news websites, e-commerce, social networks, datingÃâà...
Asharq Al-awsat English
April 14, 2018
The movement is notorious for leading pressure groups that targeted self-declared moderate presidents in Iran, such as former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and former President Mohammad Khatami. Ansar-e-Hezbollah soon emerged as one of the most powerful conservative lobbying tools.
Fair Observer
April 11, 2018
This intensified as a social movement with the presidency of Mohammad Khatami (1997-2005). Reformers stood for democracy, democratic norms in government and society, and were in favor of opening up the country to the outside world, especially the West. The reformers have also tried hard in the lastÃâà...
Al-Monitor
April 5, 2018
This list, which was drawn up with the supervision and emphasis of former Reformist President Mohammad Khatami, succeeded in winning all the seats on the Tehran City Council. Hashemi, who was the lead candidate on the ticket, has been at the center of speculation about his becoming mayor everÃâà...
Asharq Al-awsat English
April 4, 2018
Pezeshkian also criticized the double standard the government is following in dealing with former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and reformist President Mohammad Khatami. Unlike Ahmadinejad, Khatami faces restrictions, including those barring his attendance at public events, and actively appearingÃâà...
Asharq Al-awsat English
April 4, 2018
Pezeshkian also criticized the double standard the government is following in dealing with former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and reformist President Mohammad Khatami. Unlike Ahmadinejad, Khatami faces restrictions, including those barring his attendance at public events, and actively appearingÃâà...
RadioFarda
April 3, 2018
Tajzadeh, 61, is a former deputy interior minister and advisor to President Mohammad Khatami, who was in office from 1997-2005. The Supreme Leader “is the flag bearer of the campaign against corruption only verbally and in his remarks and speeches,” wrote Tajzadeh. Speaking about the IranianÃâà...
Asharq Al-awsat English
April 3, 2018
Restrictions curbing the activity of reformist former president Mohammad Khatami were also promised to be rolled back. Reformist MP Elias Hazrati sent an open letter to Rouhani asking him to meet his constitutional duty on releasing Mousavi and Karroubi. When analyzing the internal situation, theÃâà...
Middle East Media Research Institute
March 30, 2018
I ask you: On whose instructions, immediately after the historic win of [Mohammad] Khatami [in the 1997 presidential election] did they begin to address the case of Karbaschi?... Why was he not convicted [of this crime] during the term of [president] Hashemi [Rafsanjani, 1989-1997]? On whose instructionsÃâà...
Asharq Al-awsat English
March 30, 2018
In April 2005, large-scale uprisings began in Ahwaz following the leak of a document from reformist President Mohammad Khatami's office showing a formal approach to change the demographic formation in Arab regions. Over the past few days, activists have launched an "I'm Arab" campaign throughÃâà...
Qantara.de
March 30, 2018
The common argument that the West has a responsibility to institute policies designed to strengthen the so-called "moderate camp" (Hassan Rouhani, former President Mohammad Khatami) against the more "radical" elements ignores the fact that both political elites are actually in the same boat.
Qantara.de
March 28, 2018
The common argument that the West has a responsibility to institute policies designed to strengthen the so-called "moderate camp" (Hassan Rouhani, former President Mohammad Khatami) against the more "radical" elements ignores the fact that both political elites are actually in the same boat.
Al-Monitor
March 22, 2018
... March 11, Abdollah Ramezanzadeh, a Reformist politician who served as spokesman for the government of President Mohammad Khatami from 2001-2005, posted several tweets in which he warned Reformist parliament members not to be fooled, saying Larijani was behind the ministers' impeachment.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
March 22, 2018
Shayegan's ideas on how civilizations communicate with each other, equally embraced by former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami, earned the intellectual the 2009 Global Dialogue Prize in Denmark. Despite having fled Iran following its 1979 Islamic Revolution, Shayegan had returned in recentÃâà...
RadioFarda
March 20, 2018
Tajzadeh, 61, is a former deputy interior minister and advisor to President Mohammad Khatami, who was in office from 1997-2005. In an open letter addressed to Ahmad Tavvakoli, a prominent conservative former MP from Tehran, Tajzadeh wrote that the Supreme Leader “is the flag bearer of the campaignÃâà...
Haaretz
March 8, 2018
Yet there, women have proven their political power; their votes were decisive in electing both former President Mohammad Khatami and current President Hassan Rohani. These differences don't disturb Westerners who assert that religion alone is what determines women's status rather than the system ofÃâà...
Anadolu Agency
March 7, 2018
Former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami on Wednesday called on Iran's conservative and reformist camps to unite with a view to resolving the many challenges facing the country. In a statement published on a website known to be close to the former president, Khatami warned of what he describedÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
October 19, 2017
Reports from Iran say the authorities have prevented former reformist President Mohammad Khatami from leaving his residence in Tehran to attend a meeting. The opposition Sahamnews website reported late on October 18 that Khatami was due to meet with his former ministers at his Baran foundation, butÃâà...
Al-Monitor
December 31, 1999
This strategy was initiated ahead of the 1997 presidential election, which saw Reformist Mohammad Khatami defeat conservative Ali Akbar Nategh-Nuri. Reform-minded Seifollah Dad and Manouchehr Mohammadi were the men behind Khatami's electoral documentary. After Khatami appointed Dad as theÃâà...
LobeLog
December 31, 1999
(Note that the Reformist organizations connected to the former President Mohammad Khatami are only a section of the larger reformist coalitions.) The inside opposition aspires for measured steps and pace of change, so the situation does not lead to chaos. Most Iranians don't want their everyday livesÃâà...
