Ahmad Khatami
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Ahmadinejad, cleric to address pro-Palestinian march...June re-election, also plan to attend. Ahmadinejad will address the rally, with his speech being followed by hardline cleric Ahmad Khatami delivering Friday prayers, Fars said. There will also be an address by Ramadan Abdullah,... In this article: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mohammad Khatami, Tehran, Iran, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Mehdi Karroubi, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, and Ahmad Khatami |
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Sydney Morning Herald - World | September 18, 2009
Iran opposition protesters defy warnings
...University later. For the first time in decades, the sermon at the Quds Day prayers was not to be given by former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani who backed Mousavi in the election but hardline cleric Ahmad Khatami. Rafsanjani has come...
In this article: Mir Hossein Mousavi, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran, Tehran University, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Israel, and Gaza
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L.A. Times - Babylon & Beyond | November 06, 2009
IRAN: Prayer leader condemns protesters, shuns 'satanic' nuclear negotiations
IRAN: Prayer leader condemns protesters, shuns 'satanic' nuclear negotiations Friday prayer leader Ahmad Khatami, a hard-line acolyte of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, condemned the protesters who took part in Wednesday's anti-government...
In this article: Iran, U.S., Islam, Los Angeles Times, and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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The News Tribune | September 18, 2009
Thousands march in Iran opposition protests
...leadership. For the past 25 years, Rafsanjani traditionally has delivered the Friday prayer sermon on Quds Day, but he was barred from doing so this year and replaced by a hard-liine supporter of Ahmadinejad, Ahmad Khatami. Customarily on...
In this article: Mir Hossein Mousavi, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mohamad Khatami, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Jerusalem, Basij, Tehran University, Mahdi Karroubi, and Israel
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IRAN: Revolutionary Guard sternly warns protesters before Quds Day
...Rafsanjani from leading Friday prayers after the Quds Day rally. Instead, Ahmadinejad and his loyalist Ahmad Khatami, a shrill hard-liner, will address the faithful. But opposition figures including Mousavi, Mehdi Karroubi and former...
In this article: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran, Basiji, Mossad, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, Los Angeles Times, Mehdi Karroubi, and Mohammad Khatami
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The Times of India - World | July 29, 2009
Don't defy supreme leader, hardliners warn Ahmadinejad
...wave of massive public rallies. "One should not hesitate in implementing the leader's order," hardline cleric and vocal Ahmadinejad critic Ahmad Khatami was quoted as saying by the Resalat newspaper. Another harsh warning came from...
In this article: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Islamic Society of Engineers, Resalat, and Tehran
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Yahoo! News | August 14, 2009
Hardline Iran cleric urges tough stance on detainees (Reuters)
...he said. Khatami is a member of the Assembly of Experts, a powerful, conservative-dominated panel of 86 clerics that has the right to elect and dismiss Iran's Supreme Leader, currently Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The opposition says...
In this article: Detainee, Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Tehran, Allegation, Islamic, and Ali Khamenei
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Ayatollah Sayyid Ahmad Khatami is a hard-line cleric and a member of the Assembly of Experts. He has strong ties with the Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Although his name resembles that of Mohammad Khatami, the reformist former president of Iran, the two men are not related. In fact, they have opposite points of view on many issues, such as democracy in Iran.
In December 2005, he met with the Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to be appointed as Tehran’s substitute Friday prayer leader. "The spirit of Iran's response is 'yes' to logical dialogue without precondition. No one can talk to Iran with the language of threats," Khatami said during his Friday sermon broadcast on Iran's state radio.
After Friday prayer services on June 22, 2007 Hojatoleslam Ahmad Khatami spoke to worshipers by broadcast on state radio from Tehran about the Knighthood of Salman Rushdie. He addressed the death sentence issued by Imam Khomeini against Rushdie, saying "In the Islamic Iran that revolutionary fatwa of Imam [Khomeini] is still alive and cannot be changed."
During the Pope Benedict XVI Islam controversy, he asked the Pope to "fall on his knees in front of a senior Muslim cleric and try to understand Islam."
After the death of Neda Agha-Soltan, Khatami claimed that Soltan was killed by protesters rather than by plainclothes Basiji, contradicting reports of eyewitnesses.
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