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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 589

Mohammad Khatami

Iranian elections headquarters staff work to register candidates for the June 28 presidential elections at the Interior Ministry in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, May 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
May 30, 2024, 2:54 pm
Iran opens registration for presidential elections following Raisi’s death
Possible frontrunners include acting incumbent Mohammad Mokhber and former presidents Ahmadinejad and Khatami, though unclear if latter are eligible to run
By Jon Gambrell and Amir Vahdat
File: Former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami speaks during a gathering in Tehran to support a leading reformist candidate in presidential elections on May 23, 2009. (AP photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian)
February 5, 2023, 6:37 pm
Ex-president and former PM of Iran speak out in favor of political reform
Mohammad Khatami says he is seeing ‘widespread discontent’ among citizens, while Mir Hossein Mousavi says Iranians need to see ‘a fundamental transformation’ in their country
By AFP
File: Former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami speaks during a gathering in Tehran to support a leading reformist candidate in presidential elections on May 23, 2009. (AP photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian)
December 7, 2022, 5:04 pm
Iran’s reformist ex-president praises ‘beautiful’ protests, pans regime’s crackdown
Mohammad Khatami calls ‘Woman, life, freedom’ chant a message for a ‘better future,’ adds that freedom and security must not be pitted against each other
By AFP
In this photo from October 9, 1978, Iranian protesters demonstrate against Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo, File)
February 1, 2019, 2:32 pm
Key dates since Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution
From takeover of American embassy to Trump’s nuclear deal withdrawal, hostile ties with US have been a defining feature of the Islamic Republic
By AFP
Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami delivers a Friday sermon in Tehran in April 2014. (MEMRI TV)
January 2, 2018, 6:11 pm
Ex-Iranian president, seen by some as moderate, condemns violence and US
Group run by Mohammad Khatami says ‘opportunists and troublemakers have exploited the demonstrations to create problems’
By Agencies
Iran's former president Mohammad Khatami. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, file)
October 19, 2017, 1:26 pm
Iranian authorities bar reformist ex-president from meeting
Three security vehicles at home of Mohammad Khatami prevent him from attending talks with his supporters
By AP
Iranian presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi casting his ballot at a polling station in Tehran, June 12, 2009. (ATTA KENARE / AFP/ File)
August 20, 2017, 8:38 pm
Iran reformist leader calls for politicians’ release
Khatami asks Khamenei to intervene to help two protest leaders, under house arrest for past six years
By AFP
Narges Mousavi, an Iranian artist and daughter of Mir Hossein Mousavi, stands during her exhibition in 'House of Free Designers' art gallery in Tehran, Iran, Friday, Aug. 11, 2017. (Ebrahim Noroozi/AP)
August 11, 2017, 11:54 pm
Iran opposition head’s daughter displays paintings
Artworks combine images symbolizing freedom with representations of bullets, gas masks and jail cell bars
By Amir Vahdat
In this undated photo, former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami watches a video on his laptop in his office in Tehran, Iran. Many reformists are expected to sit out the June 14 voting in a silent protest over the crackdowns that have left them leaderless and demoralized. Others unwilling to boycott the election are rallying around a last-ditch call for help to Khatami, who is seen increasingly as their only credible hope at the ballot box. (AP Photo/Office of Mohammad Khatami, Asghar Khaksar)
May 14, 2017, 8:09 pm
Iran’s reformist ex-president Khatami endorses Rouhani
In online video, former leader urges voters to support incumbent to ensure the ‘implementation of social and economic justice’
By Agencies
Supporters of Iranian presidential candidate Hassan Rouhani hold his portrait during a campaign rally in the capital Tehran on May 4, 2017. (AFP/Atta Kenare)
May 7, 2017, 2:35 am
Iran TV censors Rouhani campaign documentary ahead of elections
Move seen as step by conservatives to hamper incumbent’s May 19 reelection bid
By Nasser Karimi
Supporters of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani hold his portrait during a campaign rally in the capital Tehran on May 4, 2017. (AFP Photo/Atta Kenare)
May 7, 2017, 12:24 am
Ahead of elections, Iran TV censors Rouhani documentary
Campaign of Iranian president says portions of movie that were cut showed opposition politicians, support for nuclear deal
By Nasser Karimi
People arrive to mourn after the death of former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, at Jamaran mosque in Tehran, on January 8, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / ATTA KENARE)
January 10, 2017, 10:55 am
Thousands throng funeral for Iran’s Rafsanjani
White House sends unprecedented condolence message as father figure of moderate and reformist camps laid to rest
By Ali Noorani
Mourners gather around the coffin of former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani during a mourning ceremony at the Jamaran mosque in Tehran, on January 9, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / ATTA KENARE)
January 9, 2017, 3:07 pm
Mourning Rafsanjani, Iran frets over moderate movement’s future
A pivotal figure in foundation of Islamic Republic in 1979, former president hailed as leading reformist, counterweight to hardliners
By AFP and AP
Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, right, with Brigadier General Ali Fadavi and other commanders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, following the arrest of US soldiers in the Persian Gulf. (Wikimedia Commons)
November 22, 2016, 7:14 pm
Iran’s revolutionary guards seek to expand power following US election
Hardliners aim to use Trump victory to cement their political, economic, and military power home and abroad
By Alexander Fulbright
An Iranian young boy looks on as women arrive to cast their vote in the second round of parliamentary elections at a polling station in the town of Robat Karim, some 40 kms southwest of the capital Tehran, April 29, 2016. (AFP/ATTA KENARE)
May 1, 2016, 3:18 pm
Iran’s new parliament has more women than clerics
Setting a record, women hold 17 out of 290 seats after second round of voting, while men of the cloth hold just 16
By AFP
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